Google opts out of FISA disclosure deal, calls it 'a step back for users'

[srathi]

http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/6/15/4432368/google-opts-out-of-fisa-disclosure-deal-made-by-facebook-and

[rosser]

This begins to hint at something I've been kind-of hoping to see since this all started to break: internet companies competing with one another over who can be the most transparent. If only that were to have time and opportunity to set, and become the norm...

[morpher]

Can't you just separately report the number of non-confidential-law-enforcement requests (as an exact number), and let the reader take the difference?

[kllrnohj → morpher]

Pretty sure the NSA isn't that stupid to leave that loophole wide open.

Similarly Google probably isn't allowed to disclose the past 6 months even in aggregate since they already published specifics.

[ck2]

If NSA has nothing to hide about FISA requests, what are they afraid of? Works both ways eh?

[b6 → ck2]

No. :(