Google for data sharing requests the Government to call Facebook

In a statement, Facebook General Counsel Ted Ullyot companies urged the government to allow "national security applications include information on size and scope."

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makes a public statement from the government every year.

Companies a secret National Security Agency program to collect data about the revelations of the past week has been under pressure since.



On Tuesday, Google Government from disclosing specific information about these requests to loosen restrictions on the tech firm said. Google has said that

Gupta, Google's chief legal officer David Drummond said in the letter, the company your users can do with personal information about the fuel "speculation".

Google Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by the number and scope of applications, including governments, wants to publish information. Result, Drummond wrote, "clearly being complied with these requests is too low, it will display claims. Google has nothing to hide."

The letter, Google Transparency report it regularly to include information about their applications wants to. Each year the firm in 2010, received many requests from governments around the world disclosing began publishing reports. The user data, as well as violation of copyright laws or censorship cases, to remove some material from the system for the firm include requests for applications.

User data requests, data through December, its latest report covers the company's 33,634 users or accounts affected in the user data, the 21,389 U.S. federal application is received. 66% of these cases to the firm's production data.

Google is also a range of national security letters and their applications as part of its transparency report every year publishes an effect on the number of accounts.

But Google's report of foreign intelligence surveillance act is not covered by the stated applications.

"Google, you usually run for national security posts in the recent disclosure that the definition of control," Drummond wrote.no harm will serve the public interest. "

However, Ullyot said, facebook, private companies can share loosened the restrictions to publish a fuller report "would welcome the opportunity '