Tech Companies Offer Update on Government Data Requests
Big technology companies on Monday released updated reports on the number of government requests for information on their users.
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Legal cases: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Transparency Case
Microsoft, Google, and other companies filed suit in June 2013 against the U.S. government for the right to disclose more details on orders issued under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and U.S. national security laws. In February 2014, the U.S. government approved an agreement permitting Microsoft and the other companies to publish data about orders for the first time.
Providing additional transparency on U.S. government requests for customer data
Today we are updating our transparency reporting to provide new information relating to governmental demands for customer data. Beginning last summer, Microsoft, Google, and other companies filed lawsuits against the U.S. government arguing that we have a legal and constitutional right to disclose more detailed information about these demands. We contended that we should be able to disclose information about legal orders issued pursuant to U.S. national security laws such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which we had previously been barred from disclosing.
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Google, Microsoft Press Lawsuits for Right to Release More Surveillance Data
Perennial competitors in the search realm, Google and Microsoft have set down their swords to press the U.S. government in court for the right to publish statistics on secret surveillance demands against their customers, the companies said today.
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Microsoft and Google to sue over US surveillance requests
Microsoft and Google are to sue the US government to win the right to reveal more information about official requests for user data. The companies announced the lawsuit on Friday, escalating a legal battle over the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa), the mechanism used by the National Security Agency (NSA) and other US government agencies to gather data about foreign internet users.
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Standing together for greater transparency
To followers of technology issues, there are many days when Microsoft and Google stand apart. But today our two companies stand together. We both remain concerned with the Government’s continued unwillingness to permit us to publish sufficient data relating to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) orders.
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