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> less than 0.00385% of customers had data disclosed due to government information requests. According to [1], there are about 600 million apple users, so this
by jpmattia 12y ago
> less than 0.00385% of customers had data disclosed due to government information requests.
According to [1], there are about 600 million apple users, so this translates to 23,000 customers exposed due to government information requests.
Seems like a large number. Is 600M correct?
[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-to-reach-600-million-users-by-end-of-2013-says-analyst/ http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-to-reach-600-million-users-by...
- nknighthb 12y agoThere are millions of people arrested in the US alone every year. It doesn't seem unbelievable that 23,000 of them had iPhones/iPads that law enforcement wanted data off of.
- alexbecker 12y agoThe "less than" seems pretty superfluous when they're giving that many digits...