Major Tech Companies Disclose Secret Court Orders for First Time

Several industry-leading tech companies are much more transparent about government surveillance requests than they were last week.

Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and LinkedIn have all provided statistics on government requests for user data issued through National Security Letters (NSLs) and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court orders. Internet communications companies were previously forbidden to release such data, until the U.S. government reached an agreement with several of the aforementioned companies, which was announced last week

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