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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.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Monday April 20 2020, @05:40PM
By definition, the truthful explanation is classified and will not be told to the general public.
Rational? One might rationally argue to a judge that the release of any information about government information requests provides "the enemy" insight into the government's surveillance operations - then by wild extension - putting at risk the lives of our surveillance personnel around the world. Reasonable? No. A good government surveillance organization would "noise up" the data provided to the public such that any increase or decrease observed from the outside is more likely to be noise than signal.
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