A Google official praised the principles of two surveillance transparency bills introduced this yearrnby Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., and Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., “We’re looking forward to a broader campaignrnto codify the principles in those bills,” said Google Privacy Policy Counsel David Lieber, speakingrnfor the company's public policy team Wednesday on a panel hosted by the Cato Institute. Google andrnother technology companies have sought to release more information about how many surveillance requestsrnthe government makes. Lieber argued that the prohibition on releasing that data violates the FirstrnAmendment. He called it “anachronistic” for companies to live under what amounts to a licensing schemernabout who gets to speak and how.
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