Apple is reliably more agreeable with US asks for access to clients' data than with whatever is left of the world by and large, it has developed.
Its own figures demonstrated that, in 2015, Apple discharged information on clients' gadgets to US powers 80% of the time, contrasted with 55% when it went to the UK.
That contrasted with a worldwide normal of almost 60%, Apple's information appeared.
A security master said it was "profoundly baffling" for law authorization organizations.
Apple discharged its most recent straightforwardness report on Monday to supplement past discharges retreating similarly as 2013.
It distributed the quantities of gadget solicitations it got - those from law authorization for contact data and other information.
Independently, it discharged information on record demands - those from government organizations for record points of interest, including iTunes and iCloud account data.
Information discharge
The BBC's investigation has uncovered that, like in 2015, the UK was underneath the worldwide normal and the US above it for both sorts of solicitation in each of the earlier years for which there were practically identical information.
Its own figures demonstrated that, in 2015, Apple discharged information on clients' gadgets to US powers 80% of the time, contrasted with 55% when it went to the UK.
That contrasted with a worldwide normal of almost 60%, Apple's information appeared.
A security master said it was "profoundly baffling" for law authorization organizations.
Apple discharged its most recent straightforwardness report on Monday to supplement past discharges retreating similarly as 2013.
It distributed the quantities of gadget solicitations it got - those from law authorization for contact data and other information.
Independently, it discharged information on record demands - those from government organizations for record points of interest, including iTunes and iCloud account data.
Information discharge
The BBC's investigation has uncovered that, like in 2015, the UK was underneath the worldwide normal and the US above it for both sorts of solicitation in each of the earlier years for which there were practically identical information.
Among the five nations that routinely presented countless solicitations - more than 2,000 every year - the US was the main nation to reliably get Apple client data a more prominent than-normal extent of the time. Singapore was likewise underneath the normal in each of the three years.
Apple's figures demonstrated that, by and large, it was not able discharge information for 33% of record solicitations from over the world in 2015. In the US, the rate was 18% and, in the UK, 40%. A comparative picture rose in 2014. An examination of record solicitations in 2013 was unrealistic on the grounds that Apple did not discharge definite figures for the US for that year.
The US and the UK were the main nations to make more than 300 record demands for every year.
The reliably bring down extent of effective solicitations from the UK could be on the grounds that Britain is seen as "less defensive of individual protection" than the US, said Prof Alan Woodward of the University of Surrey.
The security master, who prompts Europol and who has additionally exhorted GCHQ before, said: "Whatever the reason, it is a profoundly baffling circumstance for law authorization organizations."
In spite of Apple's nearness in numerous nations outside the US, he included that it might likewise feel less compelled by a solemn obligation to follow demands from remote governments.
'Government misuse'
As per Apple's report, the lion's share of gadget solicitations were in instances of lost or stolen telephones and the BBC comprehends that a portion of the contrasts between nations were subject to the varying methodologies of national police powers towards telephone robbery.
The BBC likewise comprehends that a percentage of the unsuccessful record solicitations were down to the organization not holding any data, instead of opposing law authorization endeavors.
The firm declined to remark when reached by the BBC.
On Monday, Blackberry's CEO John Chen said the firm would consent to law authorization yet would anticipate "government misuse of attacking subject's protection".
He talked in light of reports that Canadian police could catch and read encoded messages sent utilizing Blackberry telephones. Mr Chen said the firm "remained by [its] legal access standards".
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