[bestbits] Fwd: Taking the Transparency Push Global

Wed Sep 25 16:23:14 EDT 2013

Perhaps someone could enlighten me on this…

I know that pursuing this is a major pre-occupation of various US Internet corps (Google, Facebook etc.) and I can see that getting this made public might help them get off the hook a bit (look how few the requests given the number of users we have/items we process etc.

What I don't understand is why civil society should be interested in this at all since there seem to be an almost infinite number of ways of gaming this (according to various Snowden documents i.e. one reqyest covering all communications between x and xxxistan for the month of January)

Surely CS is concerned with findings ways of managing these practices rather than getting better information on specific items of activity etc.etc.

M

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