Google wants more transparency about dataverzoeken

Google wants dataverzoeken under the FISA legislation to be made public. At this time, those requests are still secret. That said, the chief legal officer of Google, David Drummond, on Tuesday during a meeting of Google in Amsterdam.

The search giant is going to the U.s. government Tuesday formally request in order to ensure more transparency around the at this time still secret dataverzoeken, confirmed Drummond during the meeting. Google would be the existence of a so-called ‘ FISA request to go outside. At this moment companies the existence of a FISA request is not to bring out, but they need to cooperate. According to Drummond, transparency is very important.

Drummond also underlined again that the American government has no direct access to Google’s servers. “That is simply not true,” said Drummond, who states that the company is just as surprised as the rest of the world about the news that it would be. “When the U.s. government data requests, we give that, but we have no direct access,” said Drummond, who further stressed that if the government wants more information than is reasonable, Google is not going to work together.

Last week, the British newspaper The Guardian that the Us intelligence agency NSA direct access to servers of Google, Facebook and Apple would have gotten. Later added to The New York Times that there would be a kind of mailboxes, where data on request, could be installed and used by the NSA could be picked up. The NSA would not be directly with all of the data of all users can.

Even that, however, would not be true, as appears from the words of Drummond: in a dataverzoek information to the intelligence services handed over, that the data may not itself request. “They can’t login to our servers”, said Drummond. “We hand over the requested info. That can be digital or in person,” said the Google official.