The US government has sought account information of more than 2,000 Apple customers during the first half of 2013, outweighing all combined requests made by other governments globally.
The disclosures by the iPhone maker comes in the wake of latest leaks about the scope of the US NSA’s internet surveillance, which Google called as ‘outrageous’.
Apple’s latest report, similar to disclosures from Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others, revealed that it received between 1,000 and 2,000 account data requests from US law enforcement authorities, while it revealed information on about 1,000 accounts.
Apple said that the company has no interest in amassing personal information about its customers.
"We protect personal conversations by providing end-to-end encryption over iMessage and FaceTime," the iPhone maker said.
"We do not store location data, Maps searches, or Siri requests in any identifiable form."
Apple, however, complained that US limitations had barred it from revealing the exact number of national security orders and number of accounts hit by such orders.
"We strongly oppose this gag order, and Apple has made the case for relief from these restrictions in meetings and discussions with the White House, the US attorney general, congressional leaders and the courts," the company added.
"Despite our extensive efforts in this area, we do not yet have an agreement that we feel adequately addresses our customers’ right to know how often and under what circumstances we provide data to law enforcement agencies."
Between January and June 2013, Apple received about 12,442 requests from about 41 nations for information about its devices, including when, where or by whom an iPhone or iPad was initially activated.
Apple complied with 3,110 demands in the US, 429 in China, 1,856 in Germany and 689 in the UK, with the majority of them being linked to lost or stolen devices and not included requests related to national security.
In addition, reports revealed that about 1,719-2,719 had been made seeking customer account data including credit cards, email addresses, photos and telephone numbers for services including iTunes, with 1,000-2,000 coming from the US and 127 from the UK.
