[governance] Asking the U.S. government to allow Google to publish more national security request data

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Google routinely publishes requests for takedown / information from various governments around the world, including a large number of requests from the USG .. the only time they don't is when any government uses a process that forbids such disclosure.

In this case they are bound by law not to disclose these requests, so they don't.  And they have published a copy of the letter they sent requesting permission - which they arent likely to get - to post these requests.

So yes this is an exercise in PR - it also needs to be seen in perspective with Google's larger pattern of full disclosure in such cases.

--srs (iPad)

On 12-Jun-2013, at 14:25, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:

> 
> On Tuesday 11 June 2013 11:29 PM, McTim wrote:
>> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/asking-us-government-to-allow-google-to.html
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> Good to write this letter. And we understand, Google has not faced anything close to the trust deficit with non US customers that if faces today with PRISM related disclosures. I already see people around me, especially NGOS etc, that they would want to move out of gmail. google doc etc.... So, this letter to me is pure PR, and damage control...
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> I would like to see if they made any similar request to US gov before Edward Snowden happened. US government can of course neither prohibit them from writing such requests, nor sharing them publicly -- in any case, they can certainly be shared now. Any such request made before the issue went public despite google and the US gov is what would really count.
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> parminder
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