An as-of-yet unreleased Justice Department report disclosed that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court received 1,457 communication surveillance warrants from federal law enforcement in 2015, approving all “entirely or in part,” ZDNet reports. While most of the requests were focused on foreigners’ data, one in five of the warrants were concerned with Americans, the report states. Meanwhile, Facebook indicated that 60 percent of its government-initiated data requests from 2015 prohibited the company from alerting their users, according to U.S. News & World Report. However, “Facebook does not provide any government with ‘back doors’ or direct access to people’s data,” said Facebook Deputy General Counsel Chris Sonderby. “If a request appears to be deficient or overly broad, we push back hard and will fight in court, if necessary.”
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