Twitter filed a lawsuit against the FBI and...
Twitter filed a lawsuit against the FBI and the Justice Department asking the court to allow the social media company to release the “actual scope of surveillance of Twitter users by the U.S. government,” said a company blog post Tuesday…
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(http://bit.ly/Zc3Mtm). The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco (http://bit.ly/ZcfvIq). “It’s our belief that we are entitled under the First Amendment to respond to our users’ concerns and to the statements of U.S. government officials by providing information about the scope of U.S. government surveillance -- including what types of legal process have not been received,” said Twitter. The DOJ and FBI wouldn’t allow Twitter to publish a redacted transparency report, it said. “Twitter is doing the right thing by challenging this tangled web of secrecy rules and gag orders,” said Jameel Jaffer, American Civil Liberties Union deputy legal director, in a blog post Tuesday (http://bit.ly/1oNScLW). “The Constitution doesn’t permit the government to impose so broad a prohibition on the publication of truthful speech about government conduct,” he said.