> 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