Apple Issues First Transparency Report 93
Trailrunner7 writes "In a new report (PDF) detailing the number and kind of requests for user information it's gotten from various governments, Apple said it has never received a request for information under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act and would likely fight one if it ever came. The company also disclosed that it has received between 1,000 and 2,000 requests for user data from the United States government since January, but it's not clear how many of those requests it complied with because of the restrictions the U.S. government places on how companies can report this data. Right now, companies such as Apple, Google and others that issue so-called transparency reports are only allowed to report the volume of requests they get in increments of 1,000. So Apple's report shows that although it received 1,000-2,000 requests for user data so far in 2013, the number that it complied with is listed as 0-1,000. Apple, along with a number of other companies, including Google and Microsoft, have asked the government in recent months for permission to disclose more specific numbers of requests, including specific numbers of National Security Letters."
Inference (Score:3, Funny)
I have complied with between -549 and 451 requests.
Mere formality for low level incidents (Score:5, Funny)
With a built-in backdoor there's no need to send request notices.
Re:Clear as mud (Score:4, Funny)
Try actually reading the summary.
You're setting a pretty high bar there...
Re:Inference (Score:2, Funny)
"We received 1.235 thousand requests and complied with 0.422 thousand."
There you go, reported in units of a thousand and all the transparency one could want.