Apple is the most cooperative.. Israel is the most country in the region that requests information about its citizens from technology companies

A report issued by the cyber security company Surfshark revealed that Israel is the country in the Middle East and West Asia that requests “Big Data” about its citizens across the Middle East and West Asia region, according to a report published by the website. Calcalistech.

The report, "Surf Shark" - a company famous for developing privacy protection tools that help to use the Internet in safer ways - analyzed requests for user data received by major technology companies, such as "Apple", "Google" and "Facebook" ( Facebook and Microsoft were local authorities and law enforcement agencies in 177 countries between 2013 and 2020, which has steadily increased over time.

The United States topped the list of countries requesting user data with about two million user data requests in the past nine years, or approximately 585 accounts per 100,000, followed by Germany, the United Kingdom, Singapore and France, in order.

The number of accounts requested for information around the world more than quadrupled between 2013 and 2020, and 2020 witnessed the largest annual increase of nearly 40% (46% in Israel).

Israel ranked 12th globally in the number of requests, and its request for information on user accounts increased by 173% over the global average, according to the report, which relied on information from transparency reports published by Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft.

The report says that the increase in the number of requests for information submitted by countries may be attributed to the Corona epidemic and the increase in people's use of the Internet around the world, noting that this may have led to an increase in the rates of crimes committed in the virtual world.

The report said that technology companies responded to government requests by an estimated 70%, adding that Apple was the most compliant;

It approved more than 80% of all requests, 58% of which came from the United States of America.

The report found that Google was the least responsive, responding to 69% of requests from authorities around the world, adding that Microsoft was the most compliant in the past, but since 2018 it has become the least compliant.