In the wake of recent revelations that the government has been tapping their networks to monitor users, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft in recent days have all published more information about those monitoring requests. Facebook, for example, on Friday reported that for the six months ending December 31, 2012, the total number of user-data requests it received from government entities in the United States — including local, state and federal levels and both criminal and national security-related requests — was between 9,000 and 10,000.
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Tech Giants Dump Data in Trust-Rebuilding Bid
Posted by: Erika Morphy June 17, 2013 02:03 PMIn the wake of recent revelations that the government has been tapping their networks to monitor users, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft in recent days have all published more information about those monitoring requests. Facebook, for example, on Friday reported that for the six months ending December 31, 2012, the total number of user-data requests it received from government entities in the United States — including local, state and federal levels and both criminal and national security-related requests — was between 9,000 and 10,000.