“It would also obfuscate the number of law-enforcement requests Dropbox received in 2012, many of which were not sealed and are in the public record. The report, however, did not include national security requests because, Dropbox said, if for example it had received only one NSL request last year, it would have to report it as having received between one and 1,000 requests. “It would shed almost no light on the data requests Dropbox receives, and could foster the impression that Dropbox received many more national-security requests than it did,” Dropbox wrote in its brief.ĭropbox has been publishing annual transparency reports for almost two years early this year, it reported 87 requests for information affecting 164 accounts between January and December 2012, for which it complied with 82 percent of those requests. Dropbox, as LinkedIn did a week ago, filed an amicus brief yesterday with the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) requesting permission to publish the number of National Security Letter requests the cloud storage company receives.ĭropbox followed LinkedIn’s lead, arguing in its brief that the government’s proposal that companies be allowed to report NSL requests in aggregates of 1,000 works against transparency.

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