Asking the U.S. to allow Google to publish more national security request data

Re:Asking the U.S. to allow Google to publish more national ... by lern_too_spel on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @03:04AM (#5866903)

I wouldn't say the NSA killed the goose any more than I would say any other organizations that request warrants for user data did. What killed the goose was mass hysteria caused by a mistaken belief that Google let NSA see any user's data at the touch of a button. Poor journalism killed the golden goose.

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Re:Asking the U.S. to allow Google to publish more national ... by DominikR on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @05:00AM (#5867184)

How can you blame journalism when the nature of those data requests is such that in some cases companies (and even politicians) cannot talk about them, cannot fight them in court and they do not have to be approved by a judge?

This leaves a lot of space for speculation, how can somebody possibly know if they didn't request a bulk copy of all Facebook data? Or issue a billion seperate requests when by law nobody can talk about the count and scope of those requests. If I were a journalist, the first thing I would question is if they did exactly this, because they wrote a law that allows exactly this type of behaviour.

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Re:Asking the U.S. to allow Google to publish more national ... by lern_too_spel on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @08:38PM (#5871663)

Because the fact that there were secret requests for user data was already known since FISA came into being in 2005. This had nearly zero effect on the cloud companies. It took the clearly ridiculous assertions of The Guardian to kill the golden goose.

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