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Re:Apple, Facebook, others defy authorities, notify users of... by zekers on Thursday May 01, 2014 @09:45PM (#7683743)
800 million credit cards on file.
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Re:Apple, Facebook, others defy authorities, notify users of... by GregorStocks on Thursday May 01, 2014 @10:17PM (#7683843)
That's extremely valuable data to Apple and a great target for criminals, but I'm not sure the government would have much interest in it.
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Re:Apple, Facebook, others defy authorities, notify users of... by sukuriant on Thursday May 01, 2014 @10:42PM (#7683894)
This should be qualified with: since they already have it via credit card companies. You give your social security number when getting a credit card for a /lot/ of reasons. And these tend to be a good reasons.
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Re:Apple, Facebook, others defy authorities, notify users of... by lostlogin on Thursday May 01, 2014 @11:25PM (#7683983)
The majority of Apple's revenue is from outside the US. I have no idea what proportion of their credit card data is from outside the US, but we don't have these ID numbers. http://www.worldofapple.com/archives/2014/01/27/apple-posts-...
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