Facebook received up to 10,000 requests from the US government for user data in the second half of last year but what difference does it really make if you are telling every last detail of your life to the world anyway.
Facebook has said that after a week of negotiations with US security officials, the company is allowed to make new revelations about government orders for user data.
Facebook’s top lawyer, Ted Ullyot said in a statement that it is only allowed to talk about total numbers, but it is lobbying to reveal more, and the permission received is unprecedented.
Mr Ullyot says Facebook received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests from government entities in the last six months of 2012, on subjects from missing children to terrorist threats.
In a rare alliance, Facebook, Google and Microsoft are pressuring the Obama administration to loosen its legal gag on government surveillance orders.
The companies are seeking to distance themselves from the Internet dragnet code-named PRISM revealed in leaks last week.
But we ask why is it that every hacker from Hong Kong to the Knightsbridge London. (You fill in the names because we don’t give press to 15 minute wonders) can reveal everything about the Government but when in the interests of national security the government spies everyone is up in arms?
Think about it. What do you have to hide that you haven’t shared with the virtual community already?
