Al Gore: NSA Surveillance Violates The Constitution
Former Vice President Al Gore broke with many of his fellow Democrats Friday and said that the NSA surveillance programs violate the constitution.
"This in my view violates the constitution. The fourth amendment and the first amendment – and the fourth amendment language is crystal clear," he told The Guardian, which revealed the agency's phone surveillance and reported on its Internet data-mining. "It is not acceptable to have a secret interpretation of a law that goes far beyond any reasonable reading of either the law or the constitution and then classify as top secret what the actual law is."
"I quite understand the viewpoint that many have expressed that they are fine with it and they just want to be safe but that is not really the American way," he added.
Gore called "blanket" surveillance "obscenely outrageous" in a tweet on June 5. Nevertheless, he has mostly criticized Obama over climate change, an issue where the 2000 presidential nominee won a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in 2007.
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Facebook and Microsoft Release Numbers on Government Information Requests
Facebook has disclosed that it has received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests from “government entities in the U.S.” in the six month period ending December 31, 2012. These requests are “from any and all government entities in the U.S. (including local, state, and federal, and including criminal and national security-related requests),” according to a blog post written by Facebook general counsel Ted Ullyot.
And, according to Reuters, Microsoft disclosed Friday that it has received between 6,000 and 7,000 government requests during the last six months of 2012 that affected between 31,000 and 32,000 users.
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