Facebook微軟披露美政府索要用戶數據
Facebook and Microsoft Corp representatives said Friday night that after negotiations with national security officials, their companies have been given permission to make new but still very limited revelations about government orders to turn over user data.
Facebook和微軟公司代表說週五晚上在與國家安全局官員談判後，他們公司已經得到允許可以披露新的但仍然非常有限的關於政府命令提交的用戶數據。The announcements come at the end of a week when Facebook, Microsoft and Google, normally rivals, had jointly pressured the Obama administration to loosen their legal gag on national security orders.
當Facebook、微軟和谷歌，通常的對手，聯合迫使奧巴馬政府放鬆了對國家安全命令的法律禁言，公告在一週結束時出來。Those actions came after Edward Snowden, a contract employee at the National Security Agency, revealed to The Guardian newspaper the existence of secret surveillance programs that gathered Americans' phone records and other data. The companies did not link their actions to Snowden's leaks.
這些行動是在愛德華•斯諾登，國家安全局的一名僱員向《衛報》透露存在收集美國人電話記錄和其他數據的祕密監視程序後出來的。這些公司沒有將他們的行爲與斯諾登的泄漏相聯繫。
Ted Ullyot, Facebook's general counsel, said that Facebook is only allowed to talk about total numbers and must give no specifics. But he said the permission it has received is still unprecedented, and the company was lobbying to reveal more.
Facebook的首席法律顧問Ted Ullyot說Facebook只允許談論總數，不能給細節。但他說得到的允許仍然是前所未有的，公司正遊說透露更多。Using the new guidelines, Ullyot said Facebook received between 9,000 and 10,000 government requests from all government entities from local to federal in the last six months of 2012, on topics including missing children investigations, fugitive tracking and terrorist threats. The requests involved the accounts of between 18,000 and 19,000 Facebook users.
使用新的指導方針，Ullyot說Facebook在2012年下半年接到9千到1萬條政府請求，從美國聯邦到州及各級地方政府，主題包括失蹤兒童調查、逃亡跟蹤和恐怖主義威脅。這些資料信息涉及1.8萬至1.9萬名臉譜用戶。
