Facebook Monday disclosed more detailed data on national...

Facebook Monday disclosed more detailed data on national security requests it received from the government (http://bit.ly/1dYVxkt). “With last week’s announcement that the U.S. government has relaxed its limitations on what we are allowed to disclose, we are now permitted to provide important new information that we believe will help foster an informed public debate about the government’s efforts to keep the public safe,” said Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch in a blog post. The company received between zero and 999 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) content requests from January to June of 2013, the same range it had received in the six previous months. Those requests identified between 5,000 and 5,999 accounts during the first six months of 2013, up from the 4,000 to 4,999 accounts identified in those requests during the last six months of 2012. Facebook has also received between zero and 999 national security letters in both the first and last half of 2013, and the last half of 2012.