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

[Kivuva]

Maybe it's time google changed it's "don't be evil" mantra

On 12/06/2013, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:
> 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
>>
>> 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...
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> parminder
>>
>>>
>>
>>
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