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

[McTim]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 4:55 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
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> On Tuesday 11 June 2013 11:29 PM, McTim wrote:
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>> 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...
>
> 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.


I just ran across this..apparently they asked for this months ago:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/11/google-nsa-national-security_n_3423064.html?utm_hp_ref=technology

"In March, the company won the right publish statistics about the
number of "national security letters" it receives. Those letters
require Google to hand over "metadata" about users interactions -- who
emailed whom, for example, but not the content of the emails
themselves -- though even then the government would not let Google
publish exact figures but only broad ranges of the number of
requests."



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> parminder
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-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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