Bangalore: Apple received over the last six months between 4,000 and 5,000 requests for customer data from US law enforcement authorities relating to criminal investigations and national security matters, the company said on Monday.
Microsoft and Facebook published similar data last week after reaching a deal about disclosures with US national security authorities.
"We have asked the US government for permission to report how many requests we receive related to national security and how we handle them. We have been authorized to share some of that data," Apple said.
In a statement posted on its website Apple said that the requests were received from December 1, 2012 to May 31, 2013, and between 9,000 and 10,000 accounts or devices were specified in those requests, which came from federal, state and local authorities....
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London: Phone call logs, credit card records, emails, Skype chats, Facebook message, and more: The precise nature of the NSA's sweeping surveillance apparatus has yet to be confirmed. But given the revelations spilling out into the media recently, there hardly seems a single aspect of daily life that isn't somehow subject to spying or surveillance by someone. Experts say there are steps anyone can take to improve privacy, but they...
02:48 PM, Jun 15, 2013
San Francsico: Facebook and Microsoft have struck agreements with the US government to release limited information about the number of surveillance requests they receive, a modest victory for the companies as they struggle with the fallout from disclosures about a secret government data-collection program. Facebook on Friday became the first to release aggregate numbers of requests, saying in a blog post that it received between 9,000 and 10,000 US requests...
12:47 PM, Jun 15, 2013
Seattle: Microsoft said on Friday that for the last six months of 2012 it received between 6,000 and 7,000 criminal and national security warrants, subpoenas and orders affecting between 31,000 and 32,000 consumer accounts from local, state and federal US governmental entities. The software company disclosed the data after reaching a deal about disclosures with US national security authorities. Facebook published similar data earlier on Friday. ...
12:44 PM, Jun 15, 2013
San Francisco: Facebook Inc received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests for user data from various US government entities in 2012's second half, involving 18,000 to 19,000 of its users' accounts, the world's largest social network said in a Friday blogpost. The company said it released the information after reaching a deal about disclosures with US national security authorities. ...
12:43 PM, Jun 15, 2013
Los Angeles: Concertgoers won't have to leave their homes to enjoy the "Live Music Day Festival," the biggest online-only event of its kind, music networks MTV, VH1 and CMT said on Tuesday. The 24-hour virtual concert is set to kick off at 7 p.m. EDT on June 19 and will feature performances by more than 50 bands and artists spanning rock, indie, pop, R&B and folk. Acts include Hanson, Atlas...
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New Delhi: Following up on the launch of Junglee.com in India in February 2012 Amazon.com has announced its next big India foray - Amazon.in. While Junglee.com is a product aggregator and directs buyers to the seller's website, Amazon.in is the ecommerce giant's own marketplace for India. Amazon.in is Amazon's tenth marketplace launch and it will provide Indian customers with a shopping destination to purchase products from third-party sellers. Amazon.in will...
06:45 AM, Jun 05, 2013
Mumbai: Maharashtra Minorities Development Department on Saturday launched an online facility to help people apply for minority status certificate. "Those who want to obtain the minority status certificate can apply online," Minorities Development Minister Naseem Khan said after launching the web portal. People from minority communities can log on to www.mddmaharashtra.gov.in to apply for the certificate. The scrutiny of the documents would be done by the district collector and the...
02:30 AM, Jun 02, 2013
Mountain View: LinkedIn is joining the crowd of Internet services tying account security to mobile phones. In a change announced on Friday, the roughly 225 million users of LinkedIn's online professional networking service can now choose to require a code to be sent to their phones whenever an attempt is made to log in to an account from a device for the first time. The code sent to the phone...
12:27 PM, Jun 01, 2013
Moscow: The Soviet Union disappeared from the map more than two decades ago. But online an 'e-vil empire' is thriving. Security experts say the .su Internet suffix assigned to the USSR in 1990 has turned into a haven for hackers who've flocked to the defunct superpower's domain space to send spam and steal money. Capitalist concerns, rather than Communist nostalgia, explain the move. "I don't think that this is really...
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09:25 AM, May 21, 2013
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05:25 AM, May 21, 2013
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12:13 AM, May 19, 2013
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04:20 AM, May 17, 2013
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08:17 PM, May 16, 2013
