For recent years, people are all mindful in their own online lives, including social networking accounts that have been encompassed by controversy about hackers and government surveillance. However, Twitter illustrates other than the danger of hackers, the government may likewise be keeping an eye in every individual by using a person's online accounts. Presently Twitter declares that it was included in one such incident wherein they gave user data to the FBI without having any warrant for it.

VR-ZONE stated that the social media webpage reports that it accepted two requests, one in 2015, and the other one in 2016, to surrender user information without the user's notification. The company could not expose this since it was bound by gag orders until now that confine it from honestly speaking about the matter. In an official blog post, the company said that they have given each of the account holders with duplicates of the significant National Security Letter (NSLs) and additionally the account information that was constrained to produce.

The NSL Letter have been publicizing to Twitter's blog. This is not the first such leaked in recent months. Google and Yahoo have made comparative confirmations. Every letter asks for a unique sort of information called electronic communication transaction records, which includes email header information and browsing history. FBI asks to go far beyond boundaries set by 2008 Justice Department legal memo, which said such requests must be limited to phone billing records, as YAHOO TECH reported.

The company's blog post added that the actual NSLs ask for a lot of information, Twitter gives an extremely limited set of information response to NSLs reliable with federal law and interpretive guidance from the U.S. Branch of Justice. NSLs are mostly associated with a gag order confining the provider from notifying the user whose information is acquired. It is a tool which has been accessible since the 1970s, yet after the passing of the Patriot Act, they have turned out to be significantly more typical. The use of NSLs to get information is being contradicted by significant tech company including twitter, which is battling in its own claim against the government.

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