During the 1st half of 2013, our country did not request data for iTunes and iCloud accounts.
Apple has released its new transparency report, which covers the first half of 2013. The report first lists the number of official requests for information from iTunes and iCloud accounts.
In this list, from which Greece is absent, the US comes in first place, with 1,000-2,000 requests for 2,000-3,000 accounts, with the company providing data for 0-1,000 accounts. US law does not allow Apple to make exact numbers public, something it points out and criticizes in its report.
Even so, however, the requests from the authorities in the US appear to have been far more than those received by the company in Britain, which is in second place with 127. Spain is in third place on the list, with 102 requests.
However, Apple claims that in most cases its assistance was requested to solve robberies or other criminal offenses.
The report also lists a second list of “device requests,” in which authorities request information such as the information the user submitted to register their device or the date the device was first connected to an Apple service.
This category also includes Greek authorities, with two requests for a total of 8 devices, to which Apple responded. According to the company, the majority of such requests concern “stolen or lost devices.”.
The top two countries on this list are the US and Germany, with 3,542 and 2,156 requests, respectively.
Source: portal.kathimerini.gr
