Two new bills to increase transparency of government...
Two new bills to increase transparency of government surveillance were unveiled last week; Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., introduced the Surveillance Transparency Act (http://1.usa.gov/13thfNd), and Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., introduced the Surveillance Order Reporting Act (http://1.usa.gov/145XBq1). Both bills would make it…
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easier for companies to publicly provide information on the government surveillance requests they receive, including the number of orders they received and complied with and the number of users affected by those requests. In a statement (http://1.usa.gov/15luCAV), Lofgren called her bill “a needed first step to free Internet companies to provide the public information on how many surveillance orders they receive and how many of their users are affected.” These bills give “American Internet companies the ability to set the record straight on exactly what the government requests, enhancing user trust online,” said Computer & Communications Industry Association CEO Ed Black in a statement.