Amazon Publishes Opaque Transparency Report

Mark Wilson writes: Post-Snowden there is great interest in just what involvement the government has with technology firms. There are frequent requests from government agencies for information about users and the likes of Google, Snapchat and even the NSA itself have all released transparency reports that reveal, in broad strokes, the number of requests for data they have received. Amazon is the latest company to release a transparency report — although the term really should be used in the loosest possible sense. The report includes scant details about the number of subpoenas, search warrants, court orders, and national security requests received in the first five months of 2015. The report is so vague as to be virtually meaningless.

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[Anonymous Coward]

The US Government does a LOT of work using Amazon clouds. They basically own Amazon at this point in the administrative sense.

I'm fairly sure that's why Amazon blocked wikileaks payments.