Details of thousands of customer accounts from companies such as Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Yahoo are requested every six months by the government of USA, through secret orders from services, as revealed by the giants of its space technology.
As part of an agreement reached with the US Department of Justice, the companies were able to publish more data on the extent of data requested by government agencies. However, as dictated by the agreement, the disclosure is made in a specific manner (in most cases orders of thousands are presented), while there is a six-month delay in the publication of the most recent requests.
Richard Salgado, lawyer for law enforcement and information security issues in Google, needs more transparency to make it easier to understand exactly how the law on tracking works. In the case of Google, from January to June of 2013, 0 to 999 were submitted to 9.000 for 9.999-XNUMX account requests (in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act).
Microsoft received 0-999 requests, for 15.000 - 15.999 accounts, while Yahoo was in 0-999 for 30.000 - 30.999 respectively. As for Facebook, the corresponding requests were 0-999, for 5.000-5.999 accounts. In similar publications, they also did Apple last week (announced it received less than 250 national security requests, less than 250 accounts and 927 law enforcement requests for 2.330 accounts), as well and LinkedIn Professional Social Network, which also presented a small number of requests.
It is noted that, as stated in the relevant publication of LinkedIn, the agreement allows the publication of data on scales of 1.000 or 250.
