The U.S. Department of Justice today announced an agreement that will allow technology and social media companies to publicly report more detailed information about government demands for customer information.
The companies, including Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo!, filed court actions challenging prohibitions on data disclosures. Under the new agreement, they will be allowed to report on specific categories of information concerning the government’s requests for data. Under the old scheme, the companies were only permitted to disclose the total number of requests they received and the number of customer accounts affected.
