Apple confirms that the U.S. asked them about 5000 customer data - Computer World Spain

Apple has confirmed

also asked the U.S. government data about 5,000 of its customers, as they affect about 10,000 user accounts. The technology giant announcement occurs a few days after Facebook and Microsoft admitted in their corporate blogs the news leaked last week in Anglo media.

According to Facebook, until December 31, the U.S. government received between 9,000 and 10,000 warrants asking for user data (which affected about 18,000 and 19,000 counts). Meanwhile, Microsof had about 6,000 to 7,000 requests.

As in the other two cases, many of these requests were related to national security, but not others. However, companies are not allowed to

report more about it. “It allows us to publish data on national security orders received (including, where appropriate, the FISA FISA orders and directives), but only if they give along with the rest of the requests received, along with those received from state and federal agencies and locally, from July 1 to December 31, 2012 “, the statement of John Frank, Deputy CEO of Microsoft.

data publication has been, according to Facebook, the result of discussions that have been held for a week with the U.S. government, after the leaks published in The Guardian and The Washington Post claiming that the Agency National Security (NSA) had “direct access” to the servers of large Internet companies. According to these sources, the measure would be supported by the National Security Act Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).