Asking The U.S. Authorities To Let Google To Lay Out To A Greater Extent Than National Safety Asking Data
This forenoon nosotros sent the next missive of the alphabet to the offices of the Attorney General together with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Read the total text below. -Ed.
Dear Attorney General Holder together with Director Mueller
Google has worked tremendously difficult over the yesteryear xv years to earn our users’ trust. For example, nosotros offering encryption across our services; nosotros accept hired or together with then of the best safety engineers inward the world; together with nosotros accept consistently pushed dorsum on overly wide authorities requests for our users’ data.
We accept ever made clear that nosotros comply amongst valid legal requests. And final week, the Director of National Intelligence acknowledged that service providers accept received Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requests.
Assertions inward the press that our compliance amongst these requests gives the U.S. authorities unfettered access to our users’ information are only untrue. However, authorities nondisclosure obligations regarding the issue of FISA national safety requests that Google receives, every bit good every bit the issue of accounts covered yesteryear those requests, fuel that speculation.
We thus enquire you lot to assistance come inward possible for Google to break inward our Transparency Report aggregate numbers of national safety requests, including FISA disclosures—in damage of both the issue nosotros have together with their scope. Google’s numbers would clearly demonstrate that our compliance amongst these requests falls far curt of the claims beingness made. Google has cipher to hide.
Google appreciates that you lot authorized the recent disclosure of full general numbers for national safety letters. There accept been no adverse consequences arising from their publication, together with inward fact to a greater extent than companies are receiving your approving to produce together with then every bit a outcome of Google’s initiative. Transparency hither volition too serve the populace involvement without harming national security.
We volition move making this missive of the alphabet populace together with expect your response.
David Drummond
Chief Legal Officer Sumber http://googleblog.blogspot.com
Dear Attorney General Holder together with Director Mueller
Google has worked tremendously difficult over the yesteryear xv years to earn our users’ trust. For example, nosotros offering encryption across our services; nosotros accept hired or together with then of the best safety engineers inward the world; together with nosotros accept consistently pushed dorsum on overly wide authorities requests for our users’ data.
We accept ever made clear that nosotros comply amongst valid legal requests. And final week, the Director of National Intelligence acknowledged that service providers accept received Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requests.
Assertions inward the press that our compliance amongst these requests gives the U.S. authorities unfettered access to our users’ information are only untrue. However, authorities nondisclosure obligations regarding the issue of FISA national safety requests that Google receives, every bit good every bit the issue of accounts covered yesteryear those requests, fuel that speculation.
We thus enquire you lot to assistance come inward possible for Google to break inward our Transparency Report aggregate numbers of national safety requests, including FISA disclosures—in damage of both the issue nosotros have together with their scope. Google’s numbers would clearly demonstrate that our compliance amongst these requests falls far curt of the claims beingness made. Google has cipher to hide.
Google appreciates that you lot authorized the recent disclosure of full general numbers for national safety letters. There accept been no adverse consequences arising from their publication, together with inward fact to a greater extent than companies are receiving your approving to produce together with then every bit a outcome of Google’s initiative. Transparency hither volition too serve the populace involvement without harming national security.
We volition move making this missive of the alphabet populace together with expect your response.
David Drummond
Chief Legal Officer Sumber http://googleblog.blogspot.com
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