The statement, available in both Chinese and English, details Apple's efforts to ensure customer privacy is protected, and reiterates that Apple does not store or track user locations – it merely gathers that information on-device for use with traffic data, and crowdsources the locations of cell and Wi-Fi towers to enhance the speed of device positioning.
ECPA does not require service providers like Apple to help government get access to information on devices or equipment owned by an individual, regardless of whether they sold the device to that individual.
BigFix for Servers is a systems management service offering for IT server administrators that can deploy software, manage configurations, and collect hardware and software inventory information on devices that are attached to the network.
The government has historically had broad power to search travelers and their property at the border, but that prerogative is being challenged as more people travel with extensive personal and business information on devices that would typically require a warrant to examine, reports Susan Stellin in Tuesday's New York Times.
"The key is to keep the transaction in the cloud — not rooted in the device," he says, contrasting such an approach with those from Google and carriers to store payment information on devices.
The FBI said this week that it would help local law enforcement agencies decrypt information on devices without saying that it would specifically make available to them the means used to crack the San Bernardino shooter's phone.
Microsoft provides a "Compatibility Center" portal where users can search for compatibility information on devices with Windows RT; on launch, the site listed just over 30,000 devices that were compatible with the operating system.
