Twitter Transparency

<p>After a four-year legal battle, a federal judge in California <strong><a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/twittertransparency.pdf">ruled</a></strong> that Twitter cannot release a transparency report describing the extent of surveillance requests it received from the government, including national security letters and orders under the Foriegn Intelligence Surveillance Act. </p>

SAN FRANCISCO — After a four-year legal battle, a federal judge in California ruled that Twitter cannot release a transparency report describing the extent of surveillance requests it received from the government, including national security letters and orders under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

The court ruled the government sufficiently explained how the release of the information in the report could result in “grave or imminent harm” to national security.

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