Five technology companies filed a motion asking the...
Five technology companies filed a motion asking the government for more transparency about its response to their ongoing petition to disclose more information about government surveillance requests they receive (http://1.usa.gov/18qDQIV). Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook and LinkedIn in a motion made…
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public Tuesday are asking the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for the right to provide more exact numbers on government information requests and the number of users affected by them. Sept. 30, the Justice Department filed a response urging the court to not grant the requests (CD Oct 3 p5), but gave the companies “only a heavily redacted version of its submissions, and it has rejected all requests for greater access,” the motion said. The redacted response doesn’t comply with court rules, the motion argued, since it does not “clearly articulate the government’s legal arguments” behind its stance. The government’s refusal to be more transparent violates the First Amendment and the due process clause, said the motion. The five companies initially had to Oct. 21 to respond to the Justice Department, and that deadline was pushed back indefinitely during the government shutdown and hasn’t been reset (CD Oct 9 p18).