US Tech Firms Support Facebook in Gag Order Case

Facebook revealed in June that the U.S. government obtained gag orders last year preventing the company from telling its users that their data had been turned over to prosecutors. The data was submitted as part of an investigation of fraudulent claims for U.S. federal disability benefits.

The court said the defendants’ Facebook accounts contained evidence showing that they were healthy. The social media site’s first appeal against the warrant, which was “by far the largest” by a government entity, was unsuccessful.

After a New York judge agreed to make the process public, Facebook publicly admitted to turning over private data such as photographs and messages of at least 381 people involved in the fraud trial (of which 62 were later charged).

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