Twitter Sues US Government Over National Security Data Requests

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 7, 2014 @10:48AM from the your-hashtags-could-prevent-the-next-9/11 dept.

mpicpp sends news that Twitter is suing the U.S. government to fight their rules on what information can be shared about national security-related requests for user data. Service providers like Twitter are prohibited from telling us the exact number of National Security Letters and FISA court orders they've received. Google has filed a challenge based on First Amendment rights, and Twitter's lawsuit (PDF) is taking a similar approach. Twitter VP Ben Lee says, "We've tried to achieve the level of transparency our users deserve without litigation, but to no avail. In April, we provided a draft Transparency Report addendum to the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a report which we hoped would provide meaningful transparency for our users. After many months of discussions, we were unable to convince them to allow us to publish even a redacted version of the report."

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Leak it by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-07 11:00 · Score: 5, Interesting

Including names of all agents, cowards, morons or whatever they are called, "working" for the government.
Just say the documents must have been stolen or something. It's not like the government can say very much when their most secret of all secret agencies didn't manage to stop similar things from happening.