PRISM data: Apple has received 5,000 requests from authorities ... - ZDNet

Security: American giants want to wash any suspicion about the controversy PRISM. Apple says, in the last six months, and within the framework of the law, having received 4,000 to 5,000 requests from government agencies, covering 9000 to 10,000 accounts or Apple devices.

PRISM is still controversy about her. But if the U.S. government defends its monitoring program in the name of national security, the Web giants, involved them trying to take them away.

To achieve this, several companies, including Apple, were initially denied providing direct access to their servers, and also delivered several features of requests by government agencies.

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Between 1 December 2012 and 31 May 2013, Apple reported as having received 4,000 to 5,000 requests from law enforcement and carrying on customer data. In all, there are 9000-10000 accounts or terminals that have been pursued over the last 6 months.

Apple does not specify

however not many of these data requests came from the NSA, the U.S. intelligence agency behind the Prism program.

Cupertino however, is not the only one to engage in this exercise of transparency, under control. Facebook figure at 10,000 the number of requests processed for 18000-19000 relevant user accounts.

Google promises more details

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this period of six months, Microsoft states have, under the law, received 6,000 to 7,000 requests from U.S. government agencies, involving 31,000 to 32,000 accounts.

As for Google, it did not arrive by the time of counting. But the firm ensures CNet.com she works to establish identical statistics. Better still, it promises to provide more details than Microsoft and Facebook.