Google provides glimpse at government’s secret data requests

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Google provides glimpse at government’s secret data requests
By Agence France-Presse
Monday, February 3, 2014 16:12 EST

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Google included the FISA request numbers in a routinely released Transparency Report about efforts by governments to legally obtain data from the California-based Internet titan.

Facebook on Monday disclosed that it received FISA requests for information from accounts of 5,000 to 6,000 of its more than one billion members in the first six months of last year, and from the accounts of 4,000 to 6,000 of its users in the prior six months.

Meanwhile, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith said in a blog post that FISA orders were used to demand information from between 15,000 to 16,000 accounts of users in the first six months of last year.

Yahoo, meanwhile, revealed that in the same time period US officials wielding FISA court authority came looking for information from a 30,000 to 31,000 accounts of users.