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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: 2) by looorg on Monday April 20 2020, @06:35PM
Are there even enough spare bits around to declare them? Perhaps they could invent some kind of colour-wheel to indicate an approximate number, that way they don't have to tell the actual number ... not sure but something in the spectrum of holy-shit-brown or hell-frozen-over-blue perhaps?