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February 6, 2014 08:43 pm GMT
Following on the heels of Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft last week revealing data about NSA information requests, Twitter today has published its own disclosures for information requests, breaking out for the first time how it is faring on a country-by-country basis — useful considering that these days 75% of its users are outside the U.S. But it’s also using the release to drive home a point it’s been making for some time now: current rules do not allow Twitter to be as transparent as it would like to be. Twitter says that it may take the situation to the courts. “We areconsidering legal options we may have to seek to defend our First Amendment rights,”Jeremy Kessel,Manager, Global Legal Policy, writes. The topline number show that information requests have risen by 66% in the last two years, although that is still from a relatively small base. It works out to some 6,500 accounts impacted — just “~.0028% of 230M active users” in the words of Kessel. While there have definitely been some moves made by the U.S. Department of Justice to allow for more disclosure on government requests, it doesn’t go far enough to be relevant to companies like Twitter, the company believes. “These ranges do not provide meaningful or sufficient transparency for the public, especially for entities that do not receive a significant number of – or any – national security requests,” Kessel writes. “For the disclosure of national security requests to be meaningful to our users, it must be within a range that provides sufficient precision to be meaningful. Allowing Twitter, or any other similarly situated company, to only disclose national security requests within an overly broad range seriously undermines the objective of transparency. In addition, we also want the freedom to disclose that we do not receive certain types of requests, if, in fact, we have not received any.” In the transparency report (which you can see for yourself here) the U.S. still accounts for the majority of requests (59% in the last six months ending December 2013. Outside of the U.S. Japan has made the most requests followed by France, which has been making some overtures to start requesting even more control. More to come. Refresh for updates.
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Twitter Releases New Transparency Report, Says Its Considering Legal Options To Defend First Amendment Rights
Following on the heels of Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft last week revealing data about NSA information requests, Twitter today has published its own disclosures for information requests, breaking out for the first time how it is faring on a country-by-country basis — useful considering that these days 75% of its users are outside the U.S. But it’s also using the release to drive home a point it’s been making for some time now: current rules do not allow Twitter to be as transparent as it would like to be. Twitter says that it may take the situation to the courts. “We areconsidering legal options we may have to seek to defend our First Amendment rights,”Jeremy Kessel,Manager, Global Legal Policy, writes. The topline number show that information requests have risen by 66% in the last two years, although that is still from a relatively small base. It works out to some 6,500 accounts impacted — just “~.0028% of 230M active users” in the words of Kessel. While there have definitely been some moves made by the U.S. Department of Justice to allow for more disclosure on government requests, it doesn’t go far enough to be relevant to companies like Twitter, the company believes. “These ranges do not provide meaningful or sufficient transparency for the public, especially for entities that do not receive a significant number of – or any – national security requests,” Kessel writes. “For the disclosure of national security requests to be meaningful to our users, it must be within a range that provides sufficient precision to be meaningful. Allowing Twitter, or any other similarly situated company, to only disclose national security requests within an overly broad range seriously undermines the objective of transparency. In addition, we also want the freedom to disclose that we do not receive certain types of requests, if, in fact, we have not received any.” In the transparency report (which you can see for yourself here) the U.S. still accounts for the majority of requests (59% in the last six months ending December 2013. Outside of the U.S. Japan has made the most requests followed by France, which has been making some overtures to start requesting even more control. More to come. Refresh for updates.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/VjaeDCFVmyE/
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