Twitter ‘Transparency Center’ shows government data requests by country

About every six months, Twitter releases a transparency report detailing things like how many state-backed accounts it has suspended and the number of government requests for information on account holders. Today, Twitter is unveiling a centralized h...

Tech Titans Talk Life-Changing Gadgets And NSA Reform in Davos


Tech titans took the stage on the first morning at the World Economic Forum for a panel focused on changes in the digital landscape: bandwidth, privacy, data and business transformation. The speakers...

Facebook Reports 25,600 Government Requests for User Data, Mostly by U.S.


Instead of all vows and protest against U.S. surveillance reports, latest Facebook report shows a rise in U.S. government requests for user data over the past 6 months. Facebook has just released its...

Tech Giants Demand More NSA Transparency


It is a group of over 63 companies and they have signed a petition. They have beseeched the government to make its surveillance activities more transparent. Among these companies are included such...

Yahoo Disclosed US Data Requests


Following Microsoft, Facebook and Google, Yahoo has also disclosed the number of user data requests it get US government. In an exclamation statement to public, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has unveiled...