Apple Discloses Law Enforcement Requests For Cloud Data  Law
enforcement has made as many as 5,000 requests for data about
Apple 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.  [Related: The 9 Most Dangerous Cloud
Security Threats]   Apple said it released the data in the
interest of transparency. Apple joined Google and Microsoft,
which each released reports outlining law enforcement requests
for cloud-based customer data. In some cases, the firms receive
National Security Letters (NSLs) from the