DOJ sucked user data out of Apple without authorization

According to the Office of the Inspector General of the United States, the Department of Justice in 2017 stole the Google and Apple user data from both two Congressmen and forty-three staffers and some journalists too (all while telling the companies not to say what was happening) without enough authorization. According to it, "we found that the Department failed to convene the News Media Review Committee to consider the compulsory process authorization requests; the Department did not obtain the required Director of National Intelligence (DNI) certification in one investigation, and we were unable to confirm whether the DNI certification it obtained in another investigation was provided to the Attorney General before he authorized the request; and the Department did not obtain the Attorney General’s express authorization for the NDOs that were sought in connection with compulsory process issued in the investigations." It also said (according to 9to5Mac) that "it is troubled by these failings, and it is important that they are not allowed to occur again". The full link can be seen at https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/25-010.pdf, and if you're wondering if Apple will share this soon with the public, now that the gag orders have expired, that is a no, because the transparency reports focusing on this are only released every two years, so we'll have to wait a year for the next one.

By Leo