During the past year, multiple US IT companies were involved in a huge scandal, they were accused of providing confidential information about their customers to the American federal agency NSA. In reality, most of the data were provided based on official requests made by these federal agencies, some of the companies publishing statistics regarding the number of requests received and the number of data provided. To make everything even more transparent, Apple, Facebook, Google si Microsoft They've decided to notify himself users in connection with the requests made by the authorities for accessing personal data.
Although it is unlikely that users will be notified of requests involving national security issues or those regarding ongoing fraud, some users should still be notified in certain situations. So far no one has provided details about the type of information that will be disclosed and no one knows if these companies will have the legal right to do so. Despite these uncertainties, their initiative deserves praise and if enough companies will adopt it, then probably the way in which this data is requested or provided will also be changed.
