U.S. data from 5,000 people asked Apple - The Mundo.es

Apple has acknowledged in a statement this morning that the U.S. government demanded information from 5,000 people in “enforcement of customer data.”

Thus, the iPhone maker joins Facebook and Microsoft, which had already revealed the weekend the overall number of requests for information. The figure includes both criminal cases as national security.

According to the note, since December 1, 2012 and until May 31, 2013, Apple received 5,000 requests for information from customer data by the Obama Administration, for which they were between 9,000 and 10,000 affected users brand appliances .

“Whatever the circumstances, our legal team carried out an assessment of each application and, if necessary, recover and deliver accurate information to the authorities. Indeed, from time to when we see inconsistencies or inaccuracies in the request , and refuse to comply with, “says the company.

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stressed that most of the requests were due to police work, for example in the search for missing children so efforts to prevent suicide attempt .

a result, the firm wants to allay fears of its users about the treatment of personal data. In this context, the company recalled all posts your iMessage chat service are encoded and that neither Apple itself has access to your content. The same goes for FaceTime video chat.

addition, Apple filed “in an identifiable” information about where your customers search in map services or questions personal assistant Siri voice recognition.

Last Friday

Facebook and Microsoft acknowledged having user data delivered to U.S. authorities in response to requests from the various state administrations.

The company founded by Mark Zuckerberg added that the data affected only “a small fraction” in its more than 1,000 million users. In a statement, Facebook explained that since December 31, 2012 has received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests for information by private authorities from requests from the local police, state, federal or relating to national security.

Such requests

affected between 18,000 and 19,000 user accounts , something that Facebook considered “a small fraction” of its 1,100 million users worldwide, will “false claims perspective” that have appeared in certain media.

For Microsoft, the company reported that in the last half of 2012, received between 6,000 and 7,000 requests affecting between 31,000 and 32,000 user s by local, federal and state.

newspaper ‘The Guardian’ and ‘The Washington Post last week published documents suggest that the U.S. Secret Service massively NSA monitored the communications of citizens.

According to the informant Edward Snowden, as NSA employee could get all kinds of data very simple . The companies deny, however, that the authorities have had direct access to its servers and emphasize that data are provided only with a court order.