Twitter, the FBI, and cloud computing: The disclosure dilemma
October 10, 2014
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.
Twitter filed a lawsuit against the FBI and the Department of Justice on Tuesday to publish a full "transparency report," which documents government requests for user information. Its objective is to gain more information about government surveillance of its users. The published report does not include national security requests — Twitter has been prohibited from disclosing that information.
But Twitter believes it’s entitled under the First Amendment to "respond to our users’ concerns and to the statements of U.S. government officials by providing information about the scope of U.S. government surveillance." What’s really happening here? The government is requesting user information from Twitter, but wants Twitter to keep quiet about that fact…
Twitter wants to disclose the information to its users, so they can make an informed choice on what information to transmit on Twitter or whether they want to use Twitter at all…
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