Companies have a First Amendment right to...
Companies have a First Amendment right to describe their role in the government’s surveillance of the Internet, the First Amendment Coalition said in an amicus brief filed Monday before the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court(http://bit.ly/12jHqp3). The brief, also signed by…
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TechFreedom, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Democracy and Technology and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, supports Google and Microsoft’s requests for court orders that would free them to publish aggregate information about the extent of surveillance. “Google and Microsoft each seeks to engage in speech that addresses governmental affairs in the most profound way that any citizen can,” the brief said. TechFreedom President Berin Szoka said in a statement (http://bit.ly/12jGO2I): “Gagging such disclosures won’t help national security, but it has already stifled vital public debate and reduced the incentive for the companies we trust with our data to stand up for us against government overreach."