Twitter against US government. The social media has sued the Washington Executive to obtain permission, so far denied, to publish a complete report on the requests received from American intelligence regarding user data. According to Twitter, the government would have violated the right of expression by asking not to disclose the report compiled at the beginning of the year.
On the Twitter blog, the government's request is defined as contrary to the fundamental Charter of the United States: "We believe we are authorized by the first amendment of the Constitution to respond to our users". The story is intertwined with the scandal that broke out in June 2013, when Edward Snowden revealed the NSA's surveillance programs, also based on requests for data from users of various social networks.
Many other Internet giants have found a compromise with the government last January, getting to be able to reveal the numbers of requests indicating the range within which the sum fell (for example 0-999, 1.000-1.999, etc). Twitter, on the other hand, would like to go further and reveal the exact number of requests.
