This report shows the data that different government authorities around the world have been requesting from the Cupertino company. In this case it is significant to see how requests for this data continue to decline month after month by governments and the only country that continues to demand these from Apple is China. Logically in China all this is normal but the fact is that the figures increased considerably this semester, rising from 851 applications in the same period of the previous year to 11.372 this semester.
By countries they stand out in this apple report that the total number of data requests rose to 83.307 requests. These figures are high but are much lower than those requested during the same period in 2019. In Germany, data requests were made for 16.819 devices, compared to 19.633 in the second half of 2019.
In general, the data is reduced. For instance in Spain 934 requests for device data were made During this semester, while in the same period of 2019, 3.072 requests were registered. Regarding the requests regarding the elimination of applications in the App Store, some 39 requests were received for elimination due to legal infractions on some 206 applications. China received 26 of those applications covering 90 applications, followed by India which submitted 6 applications out of 102 applications. Apple eliminated the 206 requested applications as well indicated in the popular medium 9To5Mac.
Transparency in the data of the devices implies maximum privacy for the user, that Apple receives requests for data constantly or in a massive way does not mean that these are published or shared with governments. It is also necessary to carry out some previous steps to obtain this information.