Hi, this is Jay Nancarrow from Facebook. The described patent was part of our efforts to build out a formal process to manage the various requests we receive. These systems enable us to carefully scrutinize each request manually, and help us push back on many of them if they're too broad, vague, or don't meet a very high legal bar. I should also add that this process has nothing to do with recent reports about activity from the NSA.
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Hi, this is Jay Nancarrow from Facebook. The described patent was part of our efforts to build out a formal process to manage the various requests we receive. These systems enable us to carefully scrutinize each request manually, and help us push back on many of them if they're too broad, vague, or don't meet a very high legal bar. I should also add that this process has nothing to do with recent reports about activity from the NSA.