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posted by janrinok on Wednesday July 29 2015, @02:03AM   Printer-friendly

Automattic, the company behind content management and blogging platform WordPress, has complained that it can't reveal the full extent of state intelligence agencies' requests to probe users' accounts.

The company's new National Security report reports that the company's recorded zero “national security requests” in 2015's first six months. But the report then offers this observation:

The post goes on to say “By preventing us from sharing a more precise number of requests, the current disclosure rules diminish the trust that our users place in us and our services. For now, we are disclosing the maximum amount of information allowed by law.”

Automattic's unhappy with that so has joined the Twitter-initiated effort (PDF) to get the US attorney-general to change the rules in order to allow more detailed reporting of intelligence agency requests.

That effort could take years to resolve, so until it does it seems safest to assume that even though companies list small quantities of intelligence agency action, the reality may be rather different. ®


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2015, @03:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2015, @03:18PM (#215496)

    Why don't they defy the NSL and kill anyone that comes to arrest them?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2015, @07:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2015, @07:33PM (#215588)

    Why don't they defy the NSL and kill anyone that comes to arrest them?

    Sure. You just go ahead and try that sometime. Your next of kin can report back to us on how that went. Also, what the hell is the NSL? Do we have a new TLA terrorizing the populace now?

    • (Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Saturday August 01 2015, @03:48PM

      by Yog-Yogguth (1862) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 01 2015, @03:48PM (#216775) Journal

      National Security Letter.

      Here [wikipedia.org] is the “nice” and “legal” version.

      On a tangent it has been over two years now since Snowden fled.

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday July 29 2015, @07:38PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday July 29 2015, @07:38PM (#215589)

    Why don't they defy the NSL and spend 5 years getting the case in front of this Very 1st-friendly SCOTUS?

    • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2015, @09:42PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2015, @09:42PM (#215620)

      Doesn't work like that.