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Judge rules against Twitter transparency effort, citing national security – Source CNET Tech

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Twitter lost a suit against the US government that sought permission to detail national security information requests.


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Six years ago, Twitter sued the US government in an attempt to detail surveillance requests the company had received, but a federal judge on Friday ruled in favor of the government’s case that detailing the requests would jeopardize the country’s safety.

If Twitter revealed the number of surveillance requests it received each calendar quarter, it “would be likely to lead to grave or imminent harm to the national security,” US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers

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