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Thursday, October 09, 2014

Twitter sues the FBI and the Justice Department

The company wants to be able to release more information about government surveillance of its users. Twitter, based in San Francisco, filed the lawsuit in a California federal court. It contends it has the right to publish more detailed information about the scope and frequency of government information requests. In January, Justice negotiated a compromise with Google, Facebook, Yahoo and LinkedIn. That agreement lets the companies reveal how often the government requests information on users.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It would be nice if the people knew how often our gov. takes a peak at us,but I doubt it though. Americans have an Ostrich memtality.

Anonymous said...

Why would Twitter want to compromise national security?

Anonymous said...

Why would Twitter bite the hand that created it?