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Well, Apple was the last of the bigs to buckle.
by bennyg 13y ago
Well, Apple was the last of the bigs to buckle.
- kllrnohj 13y agoApple was probably the last approached as until fairly recently they didn't have any data as their cloud services were categorical failures.
- SilasX 13y agoNo data? What about iTunes?
- mrmekon 13y agoIf the NSA actually pays any consideration to how the value of their data helps find "terrorists"/criminals, iTunes data is probably not particularly valuable.
- Osmium 13y agoI don't know. Apparently Syria's Assad used iTunes: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/14/assad-itunes-emails-chris-brown http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/14/assad-itunes-ema... I imagine it'd be an easy way of finding the IP addresses of the devices actually being personally used by him (hypothetically speaking).
- Ntrails 13y agoitunes is not the product that would get the NSA salivating - not much of it's data was that useful imo before the phones came out. It's about phones and messaging. When did imessage get released? How long have apple been able to track your location with GPS? How long have you been storing your photos on the cloud (whether or not you realised it) etc etc. Once they had 1-2 of the big tech companies as precedent they really just would have started to go round to anyone they thought might be of interest. Because that is the whole point. Collect everything you can get your grubby mitts on and sort through it later.