BY: Derrick Broze
Tuesday Google filed a legal challenge against gag orders that come with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court orders it receives from the FBI and NSA. Google is arguing that silence orders infringe upon the company’s First Amendment rights to speak freely about data requests from the government. According to a court motion filed by Google they are seeking to release information on the amount of data requests and specific user information.
Currently, under the FISA act, Google is not allowed to disclose publicly the number of requests it gets for data. The public request has only come about in light of the recently leaked information regarding the PRISM software, and after the Director of National Intelligence acknowledged that service providers have received Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requests.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/google-fisa-gag-orders/
