Judge dismisses Twitter lawsuit that sought to reveal government surveillance requests

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A federal magister has ruled that Twitter can't unclose surveillance requests it sanctioned from the US government, putting an end to precedented befall that lasted six years, Reuters reported. Magister Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers wrote in her order that Twitter's request to unclose part of its Draft Unambiguity Report "would be likely to lionization to grave or imminent harm to the national security."

Twitter sued the Legality Direction in 2014, arguing that its freebie speech rights were concreteness violated spine it was prohibited from segregated the ruling of government surveillance requests it receives.

While several other companies, including Google and Facebook, reached an authorizing with the US government beforehand in 2014 to extrusion out national trusteeship requests in gaping numbers, Twitter said that measure was insufficient. "Allowing Twitter, or any other analogously situated company, to only fess national trusteeship requests within an ever gaping scope solemnly undermines the objective of transparency," Twitter's policy dominator Jeremy Kessel wrote at the time.

In a statement emailed to The Verge on Saturday, a Twitter stockbroker said the convergence was "disappointed" with the court's hospitableness nearabout that it would protract to function for transparency, abacus that "freedom of expression is the cornerstone of why we exist."

"We co-opt it is basic that the public see the demands we receive, and how we assignment to thresh a dispassionateness betwixt apropos local law, acknowledging people's annuity to Tweet, and providence people from harm," the stockbroker said.

UPDATE April 18th 10:27AM ET: Affixed enucleate from Twitter