Apple just makes an announcement to launch a global web portal for processing and tracking requests from law enforcement officers for data, through MacRumors. This will serve as a replacement to the old email-based system.
This is a change from the current system where by law enforcement officers submit requests by messaging an Apple law enforcement email account. The website would make it suitable, centralized hub for requests that will make it easier to track current inquiries and manage replies.
According to Apple, a team will be built to help train law enforcement officials around the world, with the goal toward helping smaller police forces and agencies that may not have the same resources as larger organizations.
Apple is working on these changes in response to recommendations from a recent report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said in a letter from Apple’s senior vice president and general counsel Katherine Adams.
Apple has been publishing transparency reports twice a year detailing request for information from law enforcement and government agencies, and has a severe publishing guidelines about what information it does and doesn’t give to law enforcement officials both within and outside of the US.
Apple also limits what it can give and cannot give access to on its system. The best example and most famous one was the case of the 2016 San Bernardino shootings when Apple decline to build a backdoor into the iPhone in other to allow investigators have access to information on the device.
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