Google: We Have a Right to Publish Security Requests
Petitions FISA on First Amendment grounds
Saying that its reputation and business has been harmed by false reports in the media that the government had direct access to its data, Google petitioned the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to allow it to report separately aggregate numbers of national security requests and FISA disclosures.
Google's move ratchets up a growing campaign among the Internet companies to out-do each other in privacy and transparency.
Since the Washington Post and the Guardian first published reports that the federal government was mining data from Google and several other big Internet companies, the web giants have gone on the offensive.
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