Ignoring the bans imposed by the NSA and other government agencies of various countries around the globe, the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), published last night a document in which he details all requests received for the provision of confidential information of his clients. More than that, the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), describes in this document how the data recorded by its online services is managed, how it works with the governments of various countries to provide the information requested by their agencies, what type of information the government agencies request from it, how these requests are received and processed in within the company and everything stops here.
Apple offers customers a single, straightforward privacy policy that covers every Apple product. Customer privacy is a consideration from the earliest stages of design for all our products and services. We work hard to deliver the most secure hardware and software in the world, including such innovative security solutions as Find My iPhone and Touch ID, which have made the iPhone both more secure and more convenient. Perhaps most important, our business does not depend on collecting personal data. We have no interest in collecting personal information about our customers. We protect personal conversations by providing end-to-end encryption over iMessage and FaceTime. We do not store location data, Maps searches, or Siri requests in any identifiable form.
The move of those from Apple is an extremely brave one, given that we are talking about ban orders imposed by federal agents and in the worst case, some people could be held criminally responsible. Apple is the only company that had the courage to publish this data, and this despite Google, Microsoft and other giants of American industry they complained because they are not allowed to announce publicly the number of data requests received and what kind of information was provided.
Table 1 shows account requests. The US government has given us permission to share only a limited amount of information about these orders, with the requirement that we combine national security orders with account-based law enforcement requests and report only a consolidated range in increments of 1000. Table 2 shows device requests. Even though device requests have not been the focus of public debate, we are disclosing them to make our report as comprehensive as possible. These may include requests for the customer contact information provided to register a device with Apple or the date the device first used Apple services. We count devices based on the individual serial numbers related to an investigation.
Looking now at the table above, we notice that the USA has by far the largest number of requests made to Apple, it being followed at a great distance by Great Britain, Spain, Germany and Italy. If we look from below, we notice that the USA remains the leader in terms of requests, but at a not very great distance from it we find Brazil, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, France or Australia, Apple cooperating to a certain extent with all these countries.
