Apple reveals it received a secret national security letter
Apple revealed late Monday that it has received at least one secret national security letter from the US government, demanding personal information on a customer.
News of the order came from Apple's latest biannual transparency report, which disclosed it successfully had the secret subpoena "declassified".
As with all national security letters, the order to turn over customer data includes a gag order, preventing the company or anyone else from disclosing the contents -- even to the customer in question.
But the company didn't say when it received the letter, nor did it publish the order. It's also not known exactly what the authorities wanted from this customer's accounts. Under existing law, national security letters can get access to all kinds of metadata -- but not contents of calls, emails, and other messages, which do require a court order.
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