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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: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 21 2020, @10:17AM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 21 2020, @10:17AM (#985386) Journal

    Every bad thing the Soviets did, the US did too. Often at exactly the same time.

    Actually, I think the Soviets, and then the Nazis took lessons from us, and from the Turks. We had a native population to eradicate long before the Soviets came along. Of course, Hollywood spend decades glorifying that whole "the only good Indian is a dead Indian" business.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 21 2020, @07:58PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 21 2020, @07:58PM (#985536)

    So why do you keep trying to deny reality [politico.com] then?

    Did your TDS become mentally terminal?

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 22 2020, @12:42AM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 22 2020, @12:42AM (#985619) Journal

      I don't think anyone denies, the Russians were messing with the election. There have always been a couple questions though. What was the significance of that that interference? How much effort was put into that interference? Was there collusion between the Trump campaign, and Moscow?

      From your own partisan side of things, I guess there was a lot of significance, while from most R's viewpoint, there was zero significance. I think there was little. The Russians threw a few million dollars into the effort. Some chump change. It was an experiment, and some dumb Americans fell for it.

      4chan, 8chan, and the like put more effort into the election than the Russians did. And, yes, some dumb Americans fell for those efforts, as well.