Let us reveal what we gave

IN Media Watch Briefs | 03/10/2013

The U.S. government urged a secret court to reject a request by Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. to let them publish the aggregate numbers and scope of user data they turn over to intelligence agencies. Revealing such data “on a company-by-company basis would cause serious harm to national security,” government lawyers said in court papers made public today. The three companies, as well as Facebook Inc. and LinkedIn Corp., made the request to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in Washington. The secret court issues warrants for collecting foreign intelligence inside the US. The companies are seeking a declaration allowing them to release the statistics without violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. (Bloomberg)

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