Facebook, Microsoft Release NSA Stats To Reassure Users -- CNet
In an effort to reassure users, Facebook discloses it has received legal orders to turn over details on about one-thousandth of one percent of user accounts. So does Microsoft, and Google plans to do the same.
Facebook and Microsoft on Friday became the first Internet companies to disclose the total number of legal orders they receive for user data, including ones from the National Security Agency and from state, local, and federal police performing criminal investigations.
The total for Facebook: About 18,000 accounts over a six month period, or one-thousandth of one percent of user accounts.
Microsoft's total was about 31,000 accounts over the same six month period ending December 31, 2012. A Google representative told CNET this evening that the search company is working on disclosing the same type of statistics, and plans to be more detailed than Microsoft and Facebook.
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More News On The Number Of Times Microsoft And Facebook Received Data Requests From The NSA
NSA snooping: Facebook reveals details of data requests -- BBC
Facebook got 10,000 requests for data from NSA in just six months (and Microsoft received 7,000 orders) -- Daily Mail/AP
NSA Prism: Facebook, Microsoft Reveal Number Government Data Requests in Wake Of Scandal -- Policymic
Microsoft and Facebook Disclose U.S. Security Data Requests -- Bloomberg Businessweek
Facebook, Microsoft release number of data requests from government -- Washington Post
Google, Twitter sit on NSA PRISM data as Facebook, Microsoft release -- Stabley Times
Facebook, Microsoft Release Data On NSA Surveillance; Google, Twitter Demand Greater Transparency -- IBTimes
Facebook downplays U.S. data requests -- UPI
NSA revelations threaten worldwide trust in Facebook, Google -- L.A. Times
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