Ahead of President Barack Obama’s annual State of the Union speech on what many in the privacy community know as Data Privacy Day, the Justice Department agreed on Monday to let technology companies disclose more data to the public on national security requests. The agreement will allow companies—including Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google and Yahoo—to publish additional aggregate information, including, for the first time, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court requests. This roundup for The Privacy Advisor looks into the agreement and what’s expected from Obama’s State of the Union address tonight, as well as new documents leaked by Edward Snowden on the U.S. NSA and UK’s GCHQ surveillance programs.
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