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Google Seeks OK From Feds to Disclose Stats on Secret Court Orders

By Kim Zetter
06.11.13 2:37 PM

In a letter sent to the Justice Department, Google has asked the government for permission to expand the information it publicly discloses about the national security requests it receives.

Google has asked Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller for permission to publish information about the number of requests for data it gets under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

The company made the request to help address public concerns that Google might be providing unfettered access to user data.

“[G]overnment nondisclosure obligations regarding the number of FISA national security requests that Google receives, as well as the number of accounts covered by those requests, fuel that speculation,” Google’s Chief Legal Officer David Drummond in the letter, published to Google’s blog. [ Go Read the rest & pick up a couple 'more' links.. .;) ... LoL ........;)

Rachel Maddow video & link from Google's
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/google-fisa-requests/