http://chinese.engadget.com/2013/06/27/microsoft-files-request-to-reveal-
fisa-prism-data/
Microsoft 也去法庭要求美国政府批准透露更多国安局的“要求”数据
由 Marco So 于 1 hour 之前发表
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华尔街日报指出 Microsoft 也跟 Google 一样，企图就可以透露多少国土安全局的数据
而挑战美国政府。早前他们已经对外公布了政府在过去 6 个月里，曾向他们提出了
6,000 至 7,000 次有关罪案及国土安全的资讯提交要求，涉及的用户有 31,000 至
32,000 个；但这些数据都只是在政府容许的范围下公布，并非事实的全部。所以，他们
刚刚向美国的外国情报监视法庭申请发放过去收到国安局就用户资讯索取要求的“汇总数
据”，理由就是美国政府所设的限制违反了宪法中对言论自由的保护。Twitter、Apple
和 Yahoo 等美国巨头都已经提出了同样的要求，就看美国政府怎样回应吧。
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/06/26/microsoft-also-challenges-government
-surveillance-gag-order/
Microsoft Also Challenges Government Surveillance Gag Order
Microsoft asked a secret U.S. surveillance court for permission to disclose
more information about government requests it receives for customer account
data.
Microsoft cited the First Amendment in its legal filing to the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court, and challenged what the company says are
U.S. government restrictions on how much it can reveal publicly about secret
orders to turn over user information in U.S. surveillance efforts.
Microsoft made its filing with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court a
week ago. The secret court released the legal filing on Wednesday.
Google also made a similar legal motion disclosed last week.
Big U.S. technology companies, including Microsoft, Google and Facebook, have
been caught in a swirl of controversy following revelations of how the
National Security Agency receives data from the companies in order to keep
tabs on foreigners of interest to U.S. intelligence services.
The companies have pushed back against some of the earliest news reports —
based on leaked documents from former government contractor Edward Snowden —
that suggested the companies cooperate with automated and widespread
siphoning of account information.
Microsoft in its court challenge Wednesday said its efforts to fight those
perceptions have been hamstrung because federal authorities have imposed
limits on how much the company can say about the number and nature of
surveillance requests it receives under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act.
Microsoft and Google blamed those limitations for the recent disclosure of an
odd batch of information that shed little light on how often intelligence
agencies demand account data under a secret court order.
Microsoft and Google previously have said they should be allowed to disclose
in aggregate how many FISA orders they receive each year, and how many of its
accounts are covered by those secret orders, for information such as the text
of a user's email messages and photos stored online.
“Given the size of Microsoft's user base, the Government can not reasonably
contend that disclosure of the Aggregate Data could lead any particular
individual user to infer that he or she had been targeted,” Microsoft wrote
in its court challenge Wednesday.
Microsoft said its inability to disclose the aggregate number of requests is
a violation of free speech protections in the U.S. Constitution.
Note: This post has been updated with additional information from Microsoft's
court filing, and background on the U.S. Internet companies' dealings with
surveillance agencies. The date of Microsoft's court filing also has been
corrected; an earlier version of this post incorrectly said Microsoft's legal
challenge was made Wednesday.
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一堆科技业大老也称这个机会对美国国安局反扑了
看看美国国安局如何对美国宪法交代 柯柯