Google, Apple and Microsoft refuse to provide data to the US authorities

Google, Apple and Microsoft refuse to provide access to their users from the request of the US Ministry of Justice and the FBI. It is reported by The New York Times.

In particular, the Ministry of Justice demanded that Apple provide messages sent through the iPhone suspects to the distribution of drugs and weapons. The company refused, referring to the encryption of information when sending messages through Imessage. In this regard, representatives of the Ministry of Justice and the FBI insisted on applying to the court.

Currently, the Ministry of Justice through the court is seeking from Microsoft the transfer of the correspondence of the suspects in the drug dealer. Representatives of the company claim that federal officials should receive a decision of the Irish court, since emails were saved on servers in Dublin.

Several acting and former law enforcement officials told the newspaper that they advocated to attract the company to the court. Nevertheless, this initiative was not implemented. Currently, the Ministry of Justice is trying to ensure the provision of emails from Microsoft.

According to the lawyers of the IT companies, corporations seek to protect customers after the revelations of Edward Snowden, who informed the media about the program of large-scale surveillance.

American officials are unhappy that IT companies are increasingly resorting to data encryption, the publication notes. Representatives of the Ministry of Justice and the FBI insist that the White House intervenes in the conflict and force the corporation to disclose the necessary information. However, the US presidential administration Barack Obama believes that this will facilitate authoritarian governments, in particular, China and Russia, access to information on servers located in the United States.

Meanwhile, on Sunday, Snowden, who received a shelter in Russia, called the Russian offensive to the freedom of the Internet , as well as to LGBT rights, politics "in the fundamental of the wrong." Snowden made his statement, speaking from Russia from Russia at the awarding ceremony by his Bjurnson Prize, which was awarded to him by the Norwegian Academy of Literature and Freedom of Statement.

“This is unfair in Russia, and it will be unfair in any other place,” Snowden said. “I criticized it in the past enough, and I will continue to criticize this in the future, since the tendency that the Russian authorities demonstrate is more and more control, more and more control that people look even into their personal lives, deciding what ways to express love are suitable, and what are the wrong ones - this one. The trend is fundamentally wrong. "

In the report by Transparency Report, Twitter microblogging services for the first half of the year about the request for personal information about users notes that they received the most from the US authorities - 2436. 80 percent of American demands were partially disclosed. Then follows Japan - 425 requests, 42 percent satisfied. Russia sent requests to 43, not one of them was satisfied.