American Internet companies are going to publish detailed statistics of requests for NSA

Most likely, the case of access to personal information of users by the special services will be "unwound" for a very long time. Now there are all new facts about all this, plus technology companies are trying to show that they do not voluntarily provide access to the information of their users. For example, yesterday there was information that Google will encrypt absolutely all the information that is transmitted from the data center to the data center. Today it became known that major Internet companies in the United States, including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Facebook, applied to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) in the United States, demanding permission to publish detailed information about special intelligence requests.

Yes, it turns out that in the USA there is also a court for controlling foreign intelligence, that's how it is. As for the claim, it is not joint, however, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Facebook filed their claims almost simultaneously. Of course, this may indicate that the management of these companies is discussing problems in relations with the NSA among themselves.
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In the lawsuits, in particular, it is indicated that companies, under US law, may take certain actions with regard to appeals of special services. One of the manifestations of all this is the possibility of publishing statistics on the appeals of special services. True, the right to publish such information can only be obtained through the court. Nevertheless, companies believe that the publication of statistics of this kind will help clients of companies (and society as a whole) get an idea of ​​what the special services are demanding from Internet companies.

Earlier, Internet companies have already appealed to the court to obtain permission to publish general statistics, but now companies are planning to obtain permission to publish not only numerical statistics, but also the essence of special services requests. Actually, it would be interesting to see such data. And in the light of recent events it is unlikely that the court denied the plaintiffs their claim.

Via allthingsd