still unable to get the permission for allowing them to publish even a redacted version of the report from the government. The response form FBI for its stance is that the information Twitter wants to publish "is classified and cannot be publicly released", they also said according to the framework provided on 27 January 2014, Twitter is only permitted to qualify its description of the total number of accounts affected by all national security legal process it has received but it cannot quantify that description with specific detail that goes well beyond what is allowed under the 27th Jan 2014 framework and that discloses properly classified information. About the government The United States government announced on 30 August 2013 that a transparency report which is in its own form will be released. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper announced the change on his office's Tumblr blog. He said that the decision will come naturally after President Barack Obama ordered the declassification of as much intelligence information as possible. Total numbers for national security letters, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) business records requests, FISA one register/trap and trace requests will be stated in the transparency report. Beside that, the report will also include the number of targets being investigated in each of these requests. The number will reflect the 12 months prior to the date published. The inspiration of the report comes from the recent surveillance program leaks from former NSA-contractor Edward Snowden, according to an anonymous source speaking with the Washington Post. Google, Twitter, and Facebook all release their own forms of transparency report, however they are not allowed to release this sort of information in their report. See also Censorship Internet censorship Global Network Initiative Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Electronic Communications Privacy Act National security letter (NSL) Surveillance References External links Kashmir Hill, Forbes. Thanks, Snowden! Now All The Major Tech Companies Reveal How Often They Give Data To Government, November 2013. Google's Transparency Report. "Transparency Report" Twitter's Transparency Report. "Transparency Report" Dropbox's Transparency Report. "Transparency Report" Yahoo's Transparency Report. "Transparency Report" Dropbox's Government data request principles. "data request principles" Discord's Transparency Report. "Transparency Report" Business terms Politics