Twitter discloses national security letters (2015 and 2016)

[Razer]

> Today, we’re able to speak openly about two national security requests
> for the first time, specifically two national security letters (NSLs).
> These NSLs were accompanied by gag orders when they were served (one
> in 2015, one in 2016), preventing us from notifying the impacted
> account holders or publicly disclosing their existence. The FBI
> recently informed us that the gag orders have been lifted and that we
> may notify the account holders.
>
> We have provided each of the account holders with copies of the
> relevant NSLs (certain information redacted to protect privacy) as
> well as the account data we were compelled to produce. While the
> actual NSLs request a large amount of data, Twitter provides a very
> limited set of data in response to NSLs consistent with federal law
> and interpretive guidance from the U.S. Department of Justice.
>
> We’re encouraged by the lifting of these two gag orders and those
> recently disclosed by Cloudflare, Google, the Internet Archive, and
> Yahoo!. However, Twitter remains unsatisfied with restrictions on our
> right to speak more freely about national security requests we may
> receive. We continue to push for the legal ability to speak more
> openly on this topic in our lawsuit against the U.S. government,
> Twitter v. Lynch.

More with links:
https://blog.twitter.com/2017/transparency-update-twitter-discloses-national-security-letters

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