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National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance

posted by Fnord666 on Monday April 20 2020, @03:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the who-watches-the-watchers? dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:

National security concerns just won out over Twitter's attempt to be transparent about surveillance:

Six years ago, Twitter sued the US government in an attempt to detail surveillance requests the company had received, but a federal judge on Friday ruled in favor of the government's case that detailing the requests would jeopardize the country's safety.

If Twitter revealed the number of surveillance requests it received each calendar quarter, it "would be likely to lead to grave or imminent harm to the national security," US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers concluded after reviewing classified information from the government. See below for the full ruling.

"While we are disappointed with the court's decision, we will continue to fight for transparency," Twitter said in a statement Saturday.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 20 2020, @03:56PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 20 2020, @03:56PM (#985123)

    Stop trying to interfere with national security. The government has been working on a major case for almost four years now... apparently a terrorist (no doubt a Muslim or a Mexican criminal) has been using Twitter to post tweets that make it look as if the President of the USA is mentally deranged.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 20 2020, @03:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 20 2020, @03:59PM (#985124)

    Hopefully they solve this case before November!

  • (Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 20 2020, @09:25PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 20 2020, @09:25PM (#985227)

    Nah... It was only Pelosi attempting to string slurred words into a coherent sentence.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 21 2020, @07:54PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 21 2020, @07:54PM (#985535)

      You still falling for those Russian deep fakes? [politico.com]