Apple Denies Giving Government Direct Access To Servers
Apple Inc on Thursday said it does not provide
any government agency with direct access to its servers, denying a key aspect
of a Washington Post report. The Post reported on Thursday that the U.S.
National Security Agency and the FBI are "tapping directly into the
central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies" through a highly
classified program known as PRISM, extracting audio, video, photographs,
emails, documents and connection logs. "We have never heard of
PRISM," Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said.
"We do not provide any
government agency with direct access to our servers, and any government agency
requesting customer data must get a court order." Asked whether Apple
joined the NSA-FBI data collection program, Apple declined to comment beyond
its brief statement. The Washington Post reported that Apple held out for more
than five years after PRISM enlisted its first corporate partner, in May 2007,
for "unknown reasons."
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