Asking the U.S. government to allow Google to publish more national security request data
Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 1:39 PM ET
This morning we sent the following letter to the offices of the Attorney General and the Federal Bureau of Investigation ... -Ed.
Dear Attorney General Holder and Director Mueller
... We have always made clear that we comply with valid legal requests ... Assertions in the press that our compliance with these requests gives the U.S. government unfettered access to our users’ data are simply untrue. However, government nondisclosure obligations regarding the number of FISA national security requests that Google receives, as well as the number of accounts covered by those requests, fuel that speculation ... We therefore ask you to help make it possible for Google to publish in our Transparency Report aggregate numbers of national security requests, including FISA disclosures — in terms of both the number we receive and their scope. Google’s numbers would clearly show that our compliance with these requests falls far short of the claims being made ...
David Drummond
Chief Legal Officer
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2013/06/asking-us-government-to-allow-google-to.html
