Twitter Sues U.S. Seeking Transparency on User Surveillance
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Twitter Inc. broke ranks and sued the U.S. for blocking it from publicizing more information about spy agency orders for user data after Google Inc. and other technology giants agreed to follow government disclosure rules.
The San Francisco-based social media company, which says those rules violate free speech rights, is seeking to publish precise numbers of government requests and describe to its customers Twitter’s exposure to national surveillance, according to a complaint filed today in federal court in San Francisco.