Washington - Government requests for Twitter user information is on the rise, the messaging service said as it released figures while pressing for more transparency.
"Over the past 24 months, we've received a 66% increase in requests for account information coming from more than 45 different countries impacting over 6 400 accounts around the world," Twitter's global legal policy manager Jeremy Kessel said in a blog posting on Thursday.
"The majority of global government requests for account information still come from the US government (59% in the latest report)."
Congressional leaders and representatives of the US military-intelligence apparatus have stepped up their threats against Edward Snowden and the journalists who have worked with him to expose massive illegal spying by the National Security Agency (NSA).
At a hearing Tuesday of the House Intelligence Committee, Chairman Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican, repeatedly suggested that journalists who received leaked NSA documents from Snowden and wrote articles about them were guilty of criminal acts.
We’ve repeatedly noted that the spy agencies aren’t just like giant peeping Tom’s, but they use their capabilities in mischievous offensive actions.
A new report from NBC News shows that the British spy agency used “false flag attacks” and other dirty tricks:
Washington - Government requests for Twitter user information is on the rise, the messaging service said as it released figures while pressing for more transparency.
