Between 4,000 and 5,000 requests for data received Apple of the US Government.UU.

The company gave information to federal, State and local authorities that involved about 10,000 client devices.

The technological Giants want to show that they have nothing to hide about the data they requested the Government of Barack Obama in the scandal of wiretapping citizens.

Information goes out a little bit and begin to shuffle clear numbers on the volume affected by the transfer of data from the companies to the authorities under the controversial program PRISM.

To the figures that were disclosed on Facebook, that in the last 6 months of 2012 it received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests that involved a total of between 18,000 and 19,000 users, or Microsoft, that it received between 6,000 and 7,000 requests that affected a between 31,000 and 32,000 users accounts, now Apple data are dumped.

The Cupertino company has issued an official release where has shown that from the 1 of December 2012 through May 31, 2013 received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests of data by the Government.

These requests involved at between 9,000 and 10,000 accounts or devices, whose data came to federal, State and local authorities, alleging criminal investigations and matters of national security.

"Like other companies, we have asked the Government of United States.UU. permission to report the number of applications received in relation to national security and the way in which we handle it. We have been authorized to share some of those details, we are offering for transparency", Apple said in its statement.

The company has pointed out that the majority of these requests came from the police to investigate cases of theft and other crimes, for the search of persons disappeared or patients with diseases such as Alzheimer's memory loss, as well as to try to prevent suicides.