Canada: 24 device requests<p>Canada Population: 37M<p>Australia: 1694 device requests (~70x)<p>Australia Population: 25M<p>Why such a big difference between both of these safe countries? The crime rates are pretty similar, Australia definitely doesn't have 70x more crime than Canada, and there aren't simply way more iPhones in Australia. Very different police/prosecuting strategies I guess.
This is the USA's information[1], it's interesting to see the number of account requests increased from ~5k to almost ~8k accounts, and this is for 2019.<p>Given the mass protects and how much phone live streaming was involved NEXT years report will be truly revealing.<p>It's possible it wont jump all that much as when arrested many protestors had their phones at least temporarily siezed, and the Grayshift[2] boxes law enforcement have probably don't need Apple's involvement.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayshift" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayshift</a>
For comparison, here is Google's transparency report: <a href="https://transparencyreport.google.com/?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://transparencyreport.google.com/?hl=en</a><p>Comparing US results it seems like Apple has served ~4x fewer requests vs. Google (10197 for Apple and 38042 for Google) in a six month period.
It's astounding that a supposedly free country won't even allow Apple to tell us how many illegal and unconstitutional warrantless data seizures the US government has compelled them to comply with.<p>Abridging the 4th amendment rights of users wasn't enough: they had to abridge Apple's 1st amendment rights to even say how many times it happened.<p>These are the people who voted to suspend the constitution and due process in the USA:<p><a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/115-2018/s12" rel="nofollow">https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/115-2018/s12</a>
<i>"Government and private entities are required to follow applicable laws and statutes when requesting customer information and data from Apple."</i><p>A Transparency Report is still no substitute to Encrypted backup [1] because it made the assumption that every country 's law enforcement system are just.<p>If Apple cant provide encrypted backup due to pressure from Government, an iOS Time Capsule would surely be a great product. But that would go against the goal of increasing its Services Revenue from iCloud.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusive-idUSKBN1ZK1CT" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...</a>
Am I doing the math right on the seemingly huge increase in FISA / NSL requests?<p><pre><code> 2014: ~739 # Requests
2015: ~2,498
2016: ~8,998
2017: ~29,748
2018: ~49,494 # Users, display data changed this year
2019: ~68,994</code></pre>
Considering this is Apple, I'm surprised how bad the UX of the cards+slider is.<p>At least on desktop the country cards have a delayed animation and feels super unresponsive.
For context, the US page[0] lists the primary types of requests they get:<p>> Device: High number of devices specified in requests predominantly due to return and repair fraud investigations.<p>> Financial Identifier: High number of financial identifier requests predominantly due to iTunes Gift Card and credit card fraud investigations.<p>> Account Requests: High number of accounts specified in requests predominantly due to fraud and cyber intrusion investigations and a third party app related investigation.<p>I wonder what "a third party app related investigation" is about.<p>0: <a href="https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html#twocolgreytbl-c7b7253a817c00fdf9995e6f24efaf85-heading:~:text=Matters%20of%20Note" rel="nofollow">https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html#twocolgreyt...</a>
I think it's interesting the UK's "emergency" requests list is so high relative to the overall requests made: Either the UK marks nearly all their data requests as emergencies, or are only requesting data in the case of an emergency.