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Tech Companies Begin to Disclose FISA Requests

04
Feb
2014

After reaching a deal with the Justice Department over guidelines concerning public disclosure of FISA requests, the first statistics are beginning to see the light of day. On Monday, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Yahoo! all began to reveal stats on just how many national security orders they had received in the first half of 2013. All four companies opted to separate FISA requests from national security letters, meaning that they can only be listed in increments of 1000 (if they had lumped both types together into one large number, they could give the number as an increment of 250). The number of FISA content requests also falls in that range for all four companies.

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