“推特”状告美国司法部

International microblogging platform Twitter has sued the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI for the right to release more information about government surveillance of its users.

The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in a northern California court. Under current regulations, Twitter cannot reveal certain information about government requests for users\' data relating to national security.

Twitter argues that the restrictions violate the right to free speech, as defined by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The firm said it filed the suit in an effort to force the government to be more transparent about personal data requests.

Several of the largest U.S. tech firms, including Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Dropbox, have been fighting government requests for their users\' private data.

The government has said that it will publish the total number of national security requests for customer data annually. But Microsoft and Google maintain that they should be able to break out how often the feds request specific user content, such as email conversations.

推特是星期二在北加州法院提出的诉讼。根据现行法规，推特不能透露有关政府以国家安全理由要求用户数据的请求。

推特称，对言论自由权利的限制违反美国宪法第一修正案。该公司表示，它提起诉讼的目的是要迫使政府对个人信息请求变得更加透明。

微软、 谷歌、 脸书和Dropbox等美国大的科技公司一直反对政府有权要求他们提供用户私人数据。

美国政府已经表示，每年将公布用户国家安全数据请求的总数。但微软和谷歌认为，他们应该能够了解联邦政府对特定用户内容，例如电子邮件往来的请求频率。