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Re:Apple’s Commitment to Customer Privacy by comex on Monday June 17, 2013 @04:00AM (#5891988)
To be clear, while I'm not disagreeing with you about the meaning of "direct access", in this case, the rest of the statement clearly states that Apple is not doing that:

"Regardless of the circumstances, our Legal team conducts an evaluation of each request and, only if appropriate, we retrieve and deliver the narrowest possible set of information to the authorities."

Re:Apple’s Commitment to Customer Privacy by vidarh on Monday June 17, 2013 @04:08AM (#5892004)
Considering some of the other revelations about the workings of FISA, how do you know that Apple has not been given a request for "all current and future information about all users", and decided that it is "appropriate" and that given the order, the "narrowest possible set" of information is all of it? (while they do indicate the number of requests, users and devices affected by data handed over to law enforcement, the use of that term itself is curious - it's not law enforcement the noise has been over, but intelligence agencies, and particularly NSA)

It may very well be that they have not had to deal with any broad requests from intelligence agencies, but the statement most certainly does not preclude it.