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Apple Discloses Law Enforcement Requests For Cloud Data

2013-06-18/0 Comments/in Cloud Security/by fdesir

A posting from CRN in there Security section: Law enforcement has made as many as 5,000 requests for data about Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) customers since Dec. 1, according to a disclosure Apple issued Monday. “We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer content must get a court order,” […]

US law enforcers want to see a kill switch on our mobile phones

2013-06-17/0 Comments/in Mobile Security/by fdesir

US law enforcers want to see a kill switch on our mobile phones

Apple Discloses Law Enforcement Requests For Cloud Data

2013-06-18/0 Comments/in Cloud Security/by fdesir

US law enforcers want to see a kill switch on our mobile phones

2013-06-17/0 Comments/in Mobile Security/by fdesir

US law enforcers want to see a kill switch on our mobile phones

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Apple Discloses Law Enforcement Requests For Cloud Data

2013-06-18/0 Comments/in Cloud Security/by fdesir

A posting from CRN in there Security section:

Law enforcement has made as many as 5,000 requests for data about Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) customers since Dec. 1, according to a disclosure Apple issued Monday.

“We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer content must get a court order,” Apple said in a statement in response to questions from news organizations about its cooperation with the government’s Prism program.

Apple received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data from Dec. 1, 2012, to May 31, 2013, Apple said. The requests impacted as many as 10,000 devices or Apple accounts.

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US law enforcers want to see a kill switch on our mobile phones

2013-06-17/0 Comments/in Mobile Security/by fdesir

A posting from Naked Security on mobile phones:

US law enforcers are demanding a kill switch on our smartphones that would theoretically brick them after they’re stolen.

New York’s top prosecutor, State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, together with San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, put out a statement on Thursday about the launch of an initiative devoted to drying up the secondary market on which stolen devices are sold.

The initiative, dubbed Secure Our Smartphones (SOS), is a coalition of law enforcers from across the country: state attorneys general, district attorneys, major city police chiefs, state and city comptrollers, as well as public safety activists and consumer advocates.

The announcement came on the same day that Gascón and Schneiderman co-hosted a “Smartphone Summit” with representatives from smartphone makers Apple, Samsung, Google and Microsoft.

Schneiderman said in the statement that about 113 smartphones are stolen or lost every minute in the US, with many of the thefts turning violent.

Here’s how the SOS coalition describes this “epidemic”:

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