Tuesday 19 April 2016
Apple’s latest Transparency Report reveals a perhaps not unexpected, but rather worrying, jump in the number of secret requests being made by the FBI for it to reveal user data for reasons of national security. While many figures in the report remain reliably, if not comfortably constant, the number of National Security Requests made for details on specific accounts jumped four-fold, from as little as 250 to as many as 1,499, over the first half of 2015 to the second. These orders do not need to be approved by a judge and companies subject to them are gagged from disclosing the details. Indeed, Apple is…
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