Twitter on Saturday became the latest technology giant after Yahoo, Cloudflare and Google to release National Security Letters (NSLs) from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that forced them to disclose user data to the government.
Technology companies have been talking over the past eight months about NSLs that came up with gag orders that prevented Twitter from telling target audiences or users about government demands in two letters it received in 2015 and 2016, , Tech Crunch reported.
The FBI recently lifted these gag orders, allowing Twitter to recognize NSLs for the first time.
In the newly published NSL, the FBI asked Twitter to provide "the name, address, length of service and transactional records of electronic communications" of two users.
The microblogging site said it gave a "very limited set of data" in response to requests and demanded more freedom to keep its point.
"Twitter remains dissatisfied with the restrictions on our right to speak more freely about national security requests that we may receive," Twitter Deputy General Counsel Elizabeth Banker said in a blog post.
"We would like a significant opportunity to challenge government restraints when 'classification' avoids speech on matters of public importance," Banker added.
Twitter has already unveiled these two letters and informed target users and is suing the Justice Department in an effort to talk more publicly about secret requests for user data.
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