Government, Internet Companies Reach Deal On Disclosure

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Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo and others have won the right to keep the public informed about how many times the feds have requested user data. Well that's mighty generous of the government. ;)

Under the compromise announced Monday, Internet companies will be able to report the number of criminal-related orders from the government. They also will be able to release, rounded to the nearest thousand, the number of secret national security-related orders from government investigators; the number of national security-related orders from the FISA court and the number of customers those orders affected, and whether those orders were for just email addresses or covered additional information.
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"Internet companies will be able to report the number of criminal-related orders from the government."

I noticed it says criminal-related, not national security related.

"the number of national security-related orders from the FISA court and the number of customers those orders affected, and whether those orders were for just email addresses or covered additional information."

Are these requests for the email address of a person or for access to the email? It sounds like the former but I'd bet its the latter.
 
Considering that most of the information was taken, unnoticed, this seems like it's pointless.
 
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