In a Tuesday letter to U.S. Attorney General...
In a Tuesday letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller, Google asked for the ability to provide in its Transparency Reports more specific information about national security requests for user data, after press reports claimed…
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the company “gives the U.S. government unfettered access to our users’ data” (http://bit.ly/16kzo). “Government nondisclosure obligations regarding the number of FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] national security requests that Google receives, as well as the number of accounts covered by those requests, fuel that speculation,” Chief Legal Officer David Drummond wrote. “We therefore ask you to help make it possible for Google to publish in our Transparency Report aggregate numbers of national security requests, including FISA disclosures -- in terms of both the number we receive and their scope."