Apple – Privacy – Government Information Requests

Re:Apple – Privacy – Government Information Requests by MCRed on Thursday September 18, 2014 @01:44AM (#8333902)

> If Apple provides an interface to request user-data to law enforcement / NSA, that's not a back door in the product or the service.

I consider that a back door.

>We have also never allowed any government access to our servers. And we never will

Makes it clear what he means in the first statement.

I've known Apple to engage in hyperbole to a significant degree, but never -- in nearly 40 years-- to lie publicly.

They haven't denied providing information under warrant. Basically, every US company is going to do that.

But that's on a case by case basis, not wholesale.

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Re:Apple – Privacy – Government Information Requests by mkal_tsr on Thursday September 18, 2014 @01:48AM (#8333909)

An interface to request data wouldn't be a back door, as that falls under the "request/response" model. "Here is our warrant for Person X by judge Y in district Z" != "sudo apple-get * /mount/nsa" The important distinction there is that each request is an individual request and can't be automated / done in bulk / wholesale.

I'm very interested to see how the device vs. account data-request ratio maintains/changes with the release and adoption of iOS 8.

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