A Petition For Greater Transparency

Today nosotros filed an amended petition (PDF) inward the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. This petition mirrors the requests made to Congress together with the President past times our manufacture together with civil liberties groups inward a letter (PDF) before this year. Namely, that Google hold out allowed to disclose detailed statistics almost the types (if any) of national safety requests nosotros have nether the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, including Section 702. Given the of import populace policy issues at stake, nosotros lead keep too asked the courtroom to concord its hearing inward opened upward rather than behind unopen doors. It’s fourth dimension for to a greater extent than transparency.

In addition, along amongst a number of other companies together with merchandise associations, nosotros are coming together the President’s Group on Intelligence together with Communications Technologies today. We’ll reiterate the same message there: that the levels of secrecy that lead keep built upward roughly national safety requests undermine the basic freedoms that are at the middle of a democratic society.

Posted past times Richard Salgado, Director, Law Enforcement & Information Security together with Pablo Chavez, Director, Public Policy together with Government Affairs

(Cross-posted on the Public Policy Blog)
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