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Supreme Court Denies X Corp's AppealFBI Surveillance Requests

The social media giant argued that the government's ban on disclosing the number of surveillance requests was unconstitutional, but the Supreme Court has upheld the current policy allowing only broad ranges to be disclosed.

Overview

  • Elon Musk's X Corp, formerly known as Twitter, has been denied a hearing by the Supreme Court regarding its appeal to disclose the number of times the FBI requests user data for national security investigations.
  • The company argued that the government's ban on disclosing the number of requests for national security-related surveillance of users was unconstitutional, violating its right to free speech under the First Amendment.
  • The case dates back to 2014 when Twitter was blocked by the government from publishing the number of requests for surveillance and data on its users in its half-yearly 'Transparency Report'.
  • Current policy allows X and other companies to disclose numbers of requests in broad ranges, but not in exact numbers.
  • X Corp was fined $350,000 last year for contempt after delaying responding to a Department of Justice search warrant seeking information on Donald Trump's account on the social media platform.