Microsoft urges US government transparency on security requests

8220;Permitting greater transparency on the aggregate volume and scope of national security requests,including FISA Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act orders,would help the community understand and debate these important issues,8221; Microsoft said in an emailed statement.

8220;Our recent report went as far as we legally could and the government should take action to allow companies to provide additional transparency8221;.

Both Microsoft and Google,along with other Internet companies,have come under scrutiny following disclosures in The Guardian and Washington Post newspapers of their roles in a National Security Agency data collection program named Prism.