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Twitter Releases National Security Letters (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Today, Twitter joined the ranks of Yahoo, Cloudflare and Google by announcing it had received two national security letters, one in 2015 and one in 2016. The NSLs came with gag orders that prevented Twitter from telling the public or the targeted users about the government's demands. The FBI recently lifted these gag orders, allowing Twitter to acknowledge the NSLs for the first time. In the newly-published NSLs, the FBI asked Twitter to turn over "the name, address, length of service, and electronic communications transactional records" of two users. Twitter associate general counsel Elizabeth Banker said that the company provided a "very limited set of data" in response to the requests, but did not make clear exactly what kind of data Twitter provided. "Twitter remains unsatisfied with restrictions on our right to speak more freely about national security requests we may receive," Banker wrote in a blog post. "We would like a meaningful opportunity to challenge government restrictions when 'classification' prevents speech on issues of public importance."
Maybe they got a letter asking them to. Mystery solved.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
In the newly-published NSLs, the FBI asked Twitter to turn over "the name, address, length of service, and electronic communications transactional records" of two users.
Yet another reason you should never give real personal info to social networking sites.
the only two they're allowed to speak of, that is... they're still gagged on all the rest.
Or was their privacy unlawfully violated for nothing? And, really, only two? I find that hard to believe, and, if true... frankly rather unimpressive. I bet the advertisers pedaling these malware ads on /. right now know more about terrorist activity than law enforcement does.
...they were written in Crayon, and misspelled his own name.
That's because his goal was never to make America great again. That was just his bait, and the rubes ate it up. He's a con man, flat out, and a detestable human to boot.
Why don't they get more proactive about banning obnoxious people?
Twitter misunderstood "every" is not a proper name specifying an individual account, but a noun used to indicate all members of a set, indicating that the NSL was for all accounts.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!