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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Google to DOJ and FBI: "Let us publish more
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Tue Jun 11 14:42:51 2013
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Google to DOJ and FBI: "Let us publish more national security request data"
Dear Attorney General Holder and Director Mueller
Google has worked tremendously hard over the past fifteen years
to earn our users' trust. For example, we offer encryption across
our services; we have hired some of the best security engineers
in the world; and we have consistently pushed back on overly
broad government requests for our users' data.
We have always made clear that we comply with valid legal
requests. And last week, the Director of National Intelligence
acknowledged that service providers have received Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requests.
Assertions in the press that our compliance with these requests
gives the U.S. government unfettered access to our users' data
are simply untrue. However, government nondisclosure obligations
regarding the number of FISA national security requests that
Google receives, as well as the number of accounts covered by
those requests, fuel that speculation.
We therefore ask you to help make it possible for Google to
publish in our Transparency Report aggregate numbers of national
security requests, including FISA disclosures-in terms of both
the number we receive and their scope. Google's numbers would
clearly show that our compliance with these requests falls far
short of the claims being made. Google has nothing to hide.
Google appreciates that you authorized the recent disclosure of
general numbers for national security letters. There have been no
adverse consequences arising from their publication, and in fact
more companies are receiving your approval to do so as a result
of Google's initiative. Transparency here will likewise serve the
public interest without harming national security.
We will be making this letter public and await your response.
David Drummond
Chief Legal Officer
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EXCELLENT!
--Lauren--
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