Yahoo today released the figures on requests for information from the US authorities and requested the Government to reconsider its position of secrecy with respect to the amount that were made under the umbrella of the espionage act FISA. This is the second Internet company that shows a similar position, because Google is calling upon the courts that allow them to indicate how many orders were placed by cases of national security.
The Internet companies can * publish the quantity of orders placed by the US authorities, * as they have already done Apple, Facebook and Microsoft, but without providing details about its nature, it is not possible to know which come from police cases or matters of national security.
An entry in the official blog of Yahoo, signed by the executive director of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, and the head of legal advisors, Ron Bell, the company acknowledged that the authorities made between 12,000 and 13,000 orders of this type between December 2012 and May of this year.
“Like all companies, for legal reasons Yahoo cannot give separately the number of requests relating to the FISA, because they are protected by secrecy,” write Mayer and Bell. “We urge the US government to reconsider its position on this matter”.
Meanwhile, Google requested the secret court that oversees these requests to be allowed to report on the data you requested. This order was protected by the First Amendment of the constitution of USA , which guarantees the freedom of expression
