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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 21 2020, @06:30AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 21 2020, @06:30AM (#985355)

    The problem is that judges don't want to take responsibility for ruling against the government when it comes to these things on the off chance that terrorists successfully exploit it. As long as that's the case, we'll have the government continuing to overreach and getting away with it. It's sad that even extremely unconstitutional ideas like the constitution-free zones that encompass huge swathes of the US don't seem to be a problem. Nor do the various blacksites that the US has operated for decades, where neither the American constitution nor any other laws seem to apply. In situations like that, the US constitution should apply as the people involved are all doing the work of our government.

  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday April 21 2020, @02:23PM

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday April 21 2020, @02:23PM (#985435) Journal

    Yeah, people like to "misunderstand". Constitutional rules applies to American authority, no matter where it is or who it confronts.

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