Apple about the secret surveillance of iPhone owners

Apple Company is not aware of the program of the US National Security Agency, which supposedly allows you to turn the iPhone smartphone into a surveillance tool for its owner, the company said. "Apple has never worked with the NSA, to create a secret access to any of our product, including the iPhone. In addition, we do not know about this program, which presumably allows the NSA to monitor our products ", - quotes the representative of" apple "giant RIA" Novosti ".

Earlier German magazine Spiegel reported that there is a secret NSA program that allows you to receive data from an iPhone or listen to their owners. Journalists interested in Apple could promote the development of such NSA spying program.

In Apple announced that they intend to protect its customers from surveillance. "Whenever we hear about the attempts to weaken the security of Apple products, which has been recognized as the best in the industry, we thoroughly investigate such cases and take the steps necessary to protect our customers - regardless of who is behind this", - stressed in company.

Information about the existence of secret programs spying on users of services and products Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Cisco Systems and Microsoft began to appear in the press after the flight from the United States last year, the former CIA officer Edward Snowden. In particular, October 23, 2013 there was a scandal when it became known that US intelligence agencies could listen to the mobile phone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. However, US President Barack Obama has assured the German Chancellor that US intelligence agencies are not listened to her phone calls.