“推特”狀告美國司法部

International microblogging platform Twitter has sued the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI for the right to release more information about government surveillance of its users.

The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in a northern California court. Under current regulations, Twitter cannot reveal certain information about government requests for users' data relating to national security.

Twitter argues that the restrictions violate the right to free speech, as defined by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The firm said it filed the suit in an effort to force the government to be more transparent about personal data requests.

Several of the largest U.S. tech firms, including Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Dropbox, have been fighting government requests for their users' private data.

The government has said that it will publish the total number of national security requests for customer data annually. But Microsoft and Google maintain that they should be able to break out how often the feds request specific user content, such as email conversations.國際微博平臺“推特” 狀告美國司法部和聯邦調查局，要求有更多的權利發佈政府監控其用戶的信息。

推特是星期二在北加州法院提出的訴訟。根據現行法規，推特不能透露有關政府以國家安全理由要求用戶數據的請求。

推特稱，對言論自由權利的限制違反美國憲法第一修正案。該公司表示，它提起訴訟的目的是要迫使政府對個人信息請求變得更加透明。

微軟、 谷歌、 臉書和Dropbox等美國大的科技公司一直反對政府有權要求他們提供用戶私人數據。

美國政府已經表示，每年將公佈用戶國家安全數據請求的總數。但微軟和谷歌認爲，他們應該能夠了解聯邦政府對特定用戶內容，例如電子郵件往來的請求頻率。