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Google says the FBI is monitoring the Web for potential terrorist activity. But it can’t confirm the extent of the surveillance.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As part of the Google Transparency Report, the Internet giant released data this week on so-called National Security Letters — official requests for data under the Patriot Act passed after the September 11, 2001 attacks.<\/p>\n

But Google said it was only allowed to provide broad ranges of numbers:<\/strong> in the years from 2009 to 2012, for example, it received between zero and 999 requests.<\/p>\n

The requests affected between 1,000 and 1,999 accounts, except in 2010, when the range was 2,000 to 2,999 accounts.<\/p>\n

The numbers, while inexact, were believed to be the first data from a private company about the requests, criticized by civil liberties groups for giving the government too much power to conduct surveillance without a warrant.<\/p>\n

The Electronic Frontier Foundation calls the letters “dangerous” and has challenged the authority, along with the American Civil Liberties Union.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Google’s actions are “an unprecedented win for transparency,” EFF’s Dan Auerbach and Eva Galperin said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Despite a lack of exact data, “Google has helped to at least shed some limited light on the ways in which the US government uses these secretive demands for data about users,”<\/strong> they added in a blog post.<\/p>\n

One inspector general review found “serious deficiencies” in the FBI’s handling of the process and noted that the letters concerned tens of thousands of US citizens and non-Americans.
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\nEFF said public records have documented the FBI’s “systemic abuse” of the power.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source AP<\/em>
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