Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google on Monday Began publishing information about secret government requests it receives date number, hoping to show a limited Involvement in the controversial surveillance effort. The technology industry has long been of greater transparency on government data request in order to shake off his Concerns about Involvement in a broad, secret surveillance program Revealed last summer by the former spy contractor Edward Snowden.
The government last month said it would relax rules restricting what companies can reveal details about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court orders they receive user information. Several companies, including Google and Microsoft Sued the government last year, seeking the Opportunity to reveal more of the date.
Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith said Monday, the latest date showed that the information the government has asked Internet companies to turn over was not as extensive as Feared.
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