încă o mare companie care alege otzârică de decență for a change… Internet giant Twitter is suing the Department of Justice in hopes that the United States government will let the web company publish more details about requests made for user data. The complaint, filed in federal court on Tuesday this week, asks the Justice Dept. for declaratory judgment because, according to Twitters attorneys, the US government is restricting the San Francisco-based companys freedom of speech by forbidding the release of a more detailed transparency report. Although Twitter has previously published accounts of how it handles requests made by law enforcement for information about its millions of users, restrictions imposed by the US government has prevented the company from being as forthcoming as it would like. The catalyst for the complaint, the court document suggests, is a letter sent by the Justice Dept. to Twitter last month informing the company that a proposal it submitted concerning what could be contained in future transparency reports goes beyond what the government wants Twitter to reveal. “We have carefully reviewed Twitter’s proposed transparency report and have concluded that information contained in the report is classified and cannot be publicly released,” the DOJ wrote Twitter in a Sept. 9 letter. “Twitter’s proposed transparency report seeks to publish data . . . in ways that would reveal classified details about [government surveillance] that go beyond what the government has permitted other companies to report,” Twitters attorneys quote from the letter in this weeks filing. rt/usa/193988-twitter-sues-fbi-transparency/
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 12:00:05 +0000