Apple joined Microsoft and Facebook on Monday in releasing data about the number of national security requests it received, bundled into a total number of law enforcement requests.
Google and the other Internet companies named as part of the NSA's Prism project have asked the government to let them publish the number of requests in order to provide greater transparency to users and rebuild the public's trust that they were protecting users privacy.
Microsoft and Facebook published data Friday evening, in keeping with the government's restrictions that the national security requests be combined into an aggregate number reporting all law enforcement requests, including local and state.
The data Apple reported was on the low end of range reported by the other Internet companies.
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