Apple provided data from 5,000 users to the government - Current PC

Apple has joined other companies like Microsoft and Facebook and has published a statement on its website in order to detail your role in the alleged plot indiscriminate data espionage by the U.S. government between users of major technology companies.

In this case, Apple said in that statement that among the 4000-5000 applications received since last December 2012 to date, have always been in response to requests by federal, state and local related at all times with investigations of criminal character or related to national security.

Moreover, in the content of that statement also argues

that most of these requests were related directly theft investigations, find missing children or people with Alzheimer’s, or hoping to prevent suicides . In any case, the legal department of the company has always evaluated the applications received to provide the information only in those cases where appropriate.

Finally, Apple says in the press about the privacy of their service users company and FaceTime or iMessages courier offer end data encryption to end, so that neither Apple nor other companies can access the contents of the same, in addition to other capabilities as Maps or Siri only receive the information strictly necessary to provide service and that at no time can identify users from use of such information or service.