Major Internet Companies Ask Feds to Let Them Report National Security Requests

Tomorrow, more than five dozen Internet companies, including the major Silicon Valley players, will ask the government to allow them to release information to users about the national security requests they’ve handled, according to a report in AllThingsD.

The companies signing on to the request include Google, Facebook, Apple, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yahoo, AOL, Digg, Dropbox, Meetup, Mozilla, Reddit, Salesforce, Tumblr and The Wikimedia Foundation.

As the implications of the NSA’s data-mining surveillance efforts continue to be discussed, the Internet companies that provided or are suspected of providing user data to federal authorities have