From PC World: Amazon.com has published its first transparency report describing how it has responded to requests from law enforcers for information about its customers.
The company fielded 813 subpoenas, 25 search warrants, 13 court orders and fewer than 250 national security requests from U.S. authorities. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act prohibits Amazon from disclosing exactly how many National Security Letters and FISA court orders it has received: the number may have been zero.
Despite its reluctance to release the information—companies such as Apple and Google are years ahead of it—Amazon says it is no lackey of the state security apparatus.
“Amazon never participated in the NSA’s Prism program,” Amazon Web Services Chief Information Security Officer Steven Schmidt wrote in a blog posting announcing the bi-annual report, which covers the five-month period from Jan. 1 to May 31.
Amazon hasn’t scored highly in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s “Who has your back?” report on how companies protect customer data from government requests. It will gain a point for publishing its transparency report—but that may not be all it scores for keeping its customers informed.
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