We have long pushed for transparency so users can better understand the extent to which governments request their data – and Google was the first company to release numbers for National Security Letters.
We are also seeing a shift that we hope will be adopted across internet companies more broadly: two Internet companies — Google and Microsoft — have published figures regarding National Security Letters, secretive government demands for user...
Google receives thousands of requests from law enforcement authorities to hand over user data, and while the firm was one of the first to publish transparency reports, it took until today for Google to work out a way to publish statistics about...
Those who follow me, read me, or conference with me, already know what these five letters mean, but just in case let’s review the NSTIC, what it means and then where we are now. Because you don’t have to give these websites you interact with any...
Matteo’s logo, made with markers and colored pencils, creatively uses the Google letters, depicting a green alien, Earth, an astronaut in a space suit, lunar lander, rocket ship, and meteor. This year’s competition did face some criticism after it...
Warning those officials at risk, the consumer group sent letters to Harman and all others, calling for "immediate hearings," it said in a statement. Also, back in February, the National Security Agency had teamed up with the Mountain View-based...
In its original form the Patriot Act granted the FBI, among other things, the power to issue “national security letters” (NSLs) that would compel search engines, ISPs, phone companies, libraries and other public sources of information to turn over...
This page has links to letters it has sent the search service. A security bug was found in the Excite search software that is used by many webmasters to index their web sites. Visiting the site or doing searches does not cause a security problem...
This page has links to letters it has sent the search service. A security bug was found in the Excite search software that is used by many webmasters to index their web sites. Visiting the site or doing searches does not cause a security problem...
