The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request by Elon Musk’s X Corp. to consider whether the social media company, formerly called Twitter, can publicly disclose how often federal authorities seek information about users for national security investigations. .
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X had said it was “critical” that the justices take up the case to set clear standards for when and how technology companies can speak about government demands for sensitive information about their users for surveillance.
“History demonstrates that electronic communications surveillance is both fertile ground for government abuse and a political issue of intense public concern,” X’s lawyers wrote in their petition to the Supreme Court.
The justices declined to hear an appeal brought by Elon Musk’s X against a lower court ruling that held that FBI restrictions on what the company could say publicly about investigations did not violate his free speech rights. AFP via Getty Images
Musk, in a post on X, called it “disappointing that the Supreme Court refused to hear this matter.”
The long-running lawsuit was filed in 2014, long before Musk acquired Twitter in 2022, after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden leaked information in 2013 about the extent of U.S. spying and surveillance efforts. .
In response to public outcry over the Snowden leak revelations, the US government, at the request of technology companies such as Alphabet’s Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Meta Platforms, which owns Facebook, agreed to relax restrictions on what that they could reveal about data the government had sought in connection with national security investigations.
The long-running lawsuit was filed in 2014 after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden leaked information in 2013 about the extent of U.S. spying and surveillance efforts. REUTERS
The revised policy, announced in 2014, allowed companies to disclose in broad ranges, rather than exact numbers, how often they received requests for information related to national security.
In 2015, Congress enacted a law that allowed companies to disclose limited information about how often they received so-called national security letters and orders under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act seeking user data. But they could still do so only in broad ranges and not in exact numbers. Depending on the type of report they published, companies could disclose government data demands in increments of as little as 100 or as many as 1,000.
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In 2015, Congress enacted a law allowing companies to disclose limited information about how often they receive so-called national security letters. AP
He had submitted a draft report to the Federal Bureau of Investigation before demanding that it would do just that, but the FBI concluded that the information in the report was classified and could not be made public.
A lower court judge rejected Twitter’s lawsuit, and a three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that ruling in March 2023, saying that “the government’s restriction on Twitter speech is designed strictly to support a compelling government interest.” .”
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