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| Twitter prevented from posting government monitoring requests |
The litigation site lost the lawsuit, which lasted nearly six years to inform the public about the number of requests the FBI received to monitor user accounts, and after a federal judge accepted the argument, the platform was unable to execute US government surveillance requests that were not disclosed. . The government stated that the disclosure could affect national security.
In 2014, the social media platform filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Justice to allow it to disclose the incoming monitoring requests as part of a draft transparency report, and then announced a violation of its right to freedom of expression and it was not authorized to disclose the details.
District Judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers of the Northern California County Court accepted the government's request to dismiss the lawsuit on Twitter by an 11-page order and ruled that the Twitter request should be approved. Serious or imminent injury to national security can be harmful.
Twitter has called for freedom of expression and a lawsuit against the Department of Justice in the war against federal agencies, calling for the right to disclose the extent of US government oversight, which was introduced months later by failed government negotiations.
The case against the Ministry of Justice intensified in the struggle of Internet companies to obtain privacy regulations to compete for the type and amount of information about users.
After Edward Snowden, a former CIA businessman, has released information about the National Security Agency (NSA) and espionage skills, technology companies are trying to clarify their ties with US law enforcement and espionage agencies.
The judge said that the government persuaded the government to accept the request, which is likely to cause serious or immediate harm to national security, and said: "The Ministry of Justice has used classified data to indicate the exact number of national security requests since 2014, as requested by Twitter constitutes a threat to national security."