Microsoft wasn't hammered by surveillance requests in 2016

 

A few weeks ago, Microsoft released its transparency report revealing that it had received "between 1,000 and 1,499 foreign intelligence surveillance requests (FISA known as) from January to June 2016." There is only one problem, but it does not. 

Today, Microsoft updated the report to say that stat was a mistake, and the number of orders it received in 2016 is actually between 0 and 499, as it has been in previous years. Unfortunately, the company is not allowed to publish more accurate data, so we do not know if it has really changed or how. A spokesman told Reuters that the error was a "human error".

Microsoft:

*Editor's note on April 25, 2017: Our latest U.S. National Security Orders Report and accompanying blog post contained an error, coverage that from Gregorian calendar month. one – Gregorian calendar month thirty, 2016 Microsoft received one,000 – 1,499 legislative act orders seeking revealing of client content. the proper vary is zero – 499 legislative act orders seeking revealing of client content. All the opposite information disclosed within the National Security Orders Report was correct.

Microsoft corrected the error as shortly as we have a tendency to completed it absolutely was created to make sure the accuracy of our coverage. We've place extra safeguards in situ to make sure the numbers we have a tendency to report square measure correct. we have a tendency to apologize for the error."