Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Twitter report shows rise in government requests, still can't separate FISA data

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Twitter has released the third installation of its semiannual transparency report, showing how often it responds to requests for user information and takes down tweets based on a law enforcement or copyright request. In the first report released since the NSA's surveillance program began to spark public outrage, Twitter lamented that it was still unable to give those requests their own section. "We believe it's important to be able to publish numbers of national security requests — including FISA disclosures — separately from non-secret requests," wrote legal manager Jeremy Kessel. "Unfortunately, we are still not able to include such metrics."


Without these details, the report still shows a rise in all requests. 1,157 requests for...


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/31/4574750/twitter-transparency-report-shows-rise-in-government-copyright-requests

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