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PostSubject: Tech giants urge transparency on government security   Tech giants urge transparency on government security Icon_minitimeWed Jun 12, 2013 5:32 am

Tech companies have urged the US government for greater transparency on requests for data from security agencies.
Google has asked the US government to let it publish details on national security requests in its transparency report, a request that was later echoed by Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft.
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Facebook: Backing Google. Photo: AP
Google sent a letter to US Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller, the company wrote in a blog post. The letter, included in the post, asked for the ability to report aggregate numbers of national security requests.
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By asking to publish the number of security requests, Google is seeking to "show that our compliance with these requests falls far short of the claims being made," David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, wrote in the letter.
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