Major tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn, and many others have been pressuring the White House and Congress for more transparency around government requests to collect user data, but today the US Justice Department indicated its not willing to pull back its shroud of secrecy just yet. According to papers filed with the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) , the Justice Department says that it opposes requests from technology companies to reveal more information to the public about user data requests because it believes it would hurt national security.
The DOJ thinks security trumps transparency
The rationale for keeping these requests secret boils down to the government having the authority to...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/2/4795272/tech-companies-talking-about-national-security-order-would-help-terrorists
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