Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google on Monday Began publishing information about secret government requests it receives date number, hoping to show a limited Involvement in the controversial surveillance effort.
Facebook, Microsoft,
Yahoo and Google on Monday Began publishing information about secret government
requests it receives date number, hoping to show a limited Involvement in the
controversial surveillance effort. The technology industry has long been of
greater transparency on government data request in order to shake off his
Concerns about Involvement in a broad, secret surveillance program Revealed
last summer by the former spy contractor Edward Snowden.
The government last
month said it would relax rules restricting what companies can reveal details
about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court orders they
receive user information. Several companies, including Google and Microsoft
Sued the government last year, seeking the Opportunity to reveal more of the date.
Microsoft General
Counsel Brad Smith said Monday, the latest date showed that the information the
government has asked Internet companies to turn over was not as extensive as Feared.
