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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Facebook Releases Data,
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Fri Jun 14 22:36:02 2013
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:17:13 -0700
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Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security Requests
http://j.mp/17a9jDS (Facebook)
"Since this story was first reported, we've been in discussions with
U.S. national security authorities urging them to allow more
transparency and flexibility around national security-related orders
we are required to comply with. We're pleased that as a result of our
discussions, we can now include in a transparency report all U.S.
national security-related requests (including FISA as well as National
Security Letters) - which until now no company has been permitted to
do. As of today, the government will only authorize us to communicate
about these numbers in aggregate, and as a range. This is progress,
but we're continuing to push for even more transparency, so that our
users around the world can understand how infrequently we are asked to
provide user data on national security grounds. For the six months
ending December 31, 2012, the total number of user-data requests
Facebook received from any and all government entities in the U.S.
(including local, state, and federal, and including criminal and
national security-related requests) - was between 9,000 and 10,000.
These requests run the gamut - from things like a local sheriff trying
to find a missing child, to a federal marshal tracking a fugitive, to
a police department investigating an assault, to a national security
official investigating a terrorist threat. The total number of
Facebook user accounts for which data was requested pursuant to the
entirety of those 9-10 thousand requests was between 18,000 and 19,000
accounts."
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