Apple quietly revealed its information requests data results for July-December last year and the UK was the second highest country to put out claims for ‘Emergency Requests”.
Fifteen countries were included in the results, with the UK filing a total of 43 requests. Only the United States of America came higher, with a count of 106 claims. Emergency requests are constituted by Apple as the disclosure of documents for the purpose of avoiding a situation where there could be “imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to any person, [which] requires such disclosure without delay”.
What’s more interesting is that the UK as a country accounts for more than 70% of the overall emergency claims made in Europe, Middle East, India and Africa combined. We’ve often been called the surveillance capital of the world, with more than one camera per eleven people, but this seems to suggest that we are also one of the biggest offenders for wanting your personal data. Take into account the population of the United States versus the UK and it’s a dark story; with the latter having over double the amount of claims per person.
The document also revealed information on account requests and device requests, showing that Canada and the Dominican Republic surprisingly lead the way on overall data disclosure, meaning that for every request sent the two countries always received some form of personal information as a result. The UK was further down at 58%, meaning that not all of their overall account requests were necessarily successful.
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