Facebook is fighting a gag order that's currently preventing it from notifying users about search warrants pertaining to their information. Court filings reveal the social network received warrants for three account records during a 3-month period. They were accompanied by nondisclosure orders from a District of Columbia Superior Court judge.
With those orders in place, Facebook is barred from alerting users, something it doesn't believe is right.
Other companies and civil liberties group are standing behind Facebook in support of its legal battle.
The Constitution can offer adequate protection only if the targets of seemingly overbroad warrants, such as those at issue here, know their rights are under threat,- ACLU lawyers
Facebook already failed to challenge the gag order in Superior Court and now the case is going to be heard by the DC Court of Appeals in September.
Multiple briefs supporting Facebook have officially been filed. One came from tech companies (Microsoft, Google, Apple, Snap, Dropbox, Twitter, Yelp, and Avvo), another came from the ACLU and Public Citizen Litigation Group, and the third was filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Access Now, Center for Democracy & Technology, and New America's Open Technology Institute.
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