Feb 3rd 2014, 20:39, by Adi Robertson
After reaching an agreement with the Department of Justice last week, several major tech companies have released the first details about how many information requests they receive from intelligence agencies. Microsoft, Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Yahoo have all reported the numbers for national security letters (NSLs) and requests made under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
The numbers given are far from exact. If companies want to split NSLs and FISA requests into separate categories, they can only reveal them in bands of 1,000; if they combine everything into one class, they can report them in bands of 250. LinkedIn and Apple, which published its report last week, chose the latter option: both said they had received...
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