US government requests involved between 2,000 and 3,000 Apple customer accounts and the company said it disclosed data from fewer than 1,000 of them
Apple issued its first full report Tuesday on the number of information requests the company gets from governments, responding to revelations about online snooping by the National Security Agency.
In the first half of 2013, Apple received 1,000 and 2,000 requests for information about customer accounts from U.S. authorities, including the NSA, according to the report.
The requests involved between 2,000 and 3,000 customer accounts and Apple disclosed data from fewer than 1,000 of them, the company reported.
Under a program called PRISM, the NSA requests information from several of the largest technology companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and Apple. The program uses court orders authorized by Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, to collect specific data from these companies.
In its report Tuesday, Apple did not break out how many government data requests came from the NSA. The company said the U.S. government limited what it could disclose, requiring that it combine national security orders with other law enforcement requests and only report the numbers in increments of 1,000.
"We strongly oppose this gag order," Apple said in the report.
The company added that it is pushing the government to allow more detailed reporting of FISA requests and National Security Letters, which are information demands that don't need a court order but are limited to transactional data such as phone numbers dialed and email addresses.
Apple issued its first full report Tuesday on the number of information requests the company gets from governments, responding to revelations about online snooping by the National Security Agency.
In the first half of 2013, Apple received 1,000 and 2,000 requests for information about customer accounts from U.S. authorities, including the NSA, according to the report.
The requests involved between 2,000 and 3,000 customer accounts and Apple disclosed data from fewer than 1,000 of them, the company reported.
Under a program called PRISM, the NSA requests information from several of the largest technology companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and Apple. The program uses court orders authorized by Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, to collect specific data from these companies.
In its report Tuesday, Apple did not break out how many government data requests came from the NSA. The company said the U.S. government limited what it could disclose, requiring that it combine national security orders with other law enforcement requests and only report the numbers in increments of 1,000.
"We strongly oppose this gag order," Apple said in the report.
The company added that it is pushing the government to allow more detailed reporting of FISA requests and National Security Letters, which are information demands that don't need a court order but are limited to transactional data such as phone numbers dialed and email addresses.
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