Facebook, Microsoft release information on government data requests

FOX NEWS ^ | June 13,2013

[SE Mom]

Ted Ullyot, Facebook's general counsel, said in a statement Friday that Facebook is only allowed to talk about total numbers and must give no specifics. But he said the permission it has received is still unprecedented, and the company was lobbying to reveal more.

"These requests run the gamut – from things like a local sheriff trying to find a missing child, to a federal marshal tracking a fugitive, to a police department investigating an assault, to a national security official investigating a terrorist threat," Ullyot said.

[Westbrook]

> We have succumbed to the most surveilled society in the
> history of mankind. And there is no escaping it.

If you live in the city, where such surveillance is ubiquitous, consider moving out. Yeah, they can still see you by satellite, but it’s a lot harder, and they can’t see everything you do.

> But we still can’t find out if Zer0 has a valid birth certificate?

Not to mention his college transcripts, his theses and dissertation.

[penelopesire]

I wonder how many ‘state and local’ requests came from democrat run states and municipalities? How many came from Chicago? Would be very easy for WH ‘friendlies’ to pass info on to WH and democrat operatives....without touching the WH or Feds.

Scary times and no one even seems to care to get to the bottom of how this administration has been abusing power in historic proportions.

[G Larry]

What’s Microsoft’s role in this?

Does their OS provide paths and access?

[Grampa Dave]

"I believe we were told we are being spied on TO PREVENT TERRORIST ATTACKS."

So Why Didn't NSA Catch The Tsarnaev Brothers?

[Mycroft Holmes]

What’s Microsoft’s role in this?
Does their OS provide paths and access?

_NSAKEY was a variable name discovered in Windows NT 4 Service Pack 5 (which had been released unstripped of its symbolic debugging data) in August 1999 by Andrew D. Fernandes of Cryptonym Corporation. That variable contained a 1024-bit public key.

[G Larry]

Uh....about your link...

“page has been deleted, check the deletion log, and see Why was the page deleted?”

Now THAT is funny!

[Mycroft Holmes]

Whoops! my fault, thanks. Corrected link below

Trust Me, Mash Here.

[TurboZamboni]

“I don’t have to listen to your phone calls to know what you’re doing. If I know every single phone call you’ve made, I’m able to determine every single person you talk to; I can get a pattern about your life that is very, very intrusive. The real question here is what do they do with this information that they collect that does not have anything to do with al-Qa’ida? ... But this idea that ... we’re going to trust the president and vice president of the United States that we’re doing the right thing — don’t count me in on that.” —then-Senator Joe Biden in 2006