Google asks US government to let it publish security requests The web search giant's chief legal officer, David Drummond, wrote to the Attorney general and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to allow it to publish the number and scope of the security requests it receives under America's Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. He said in the letter that Google wants to include the information in its routine transparency report. "Google has worked tremendously hard over the past 15 years to earn our users" trust. For example, we offer encryption across our services; we have hired some of the best security engineers in the world; and we have consistently pushed back on overly broad government requests for our users" data," he said. The letter follows explosive claims in documents leaked from America's National Security Agency that officers have direct access to user data on servers at Google and eight other US technology giants. All of the companies names have denied knowledge of the scheme, which is codenamed Prism. Facebook, which was also named in the papers, was also under pressure to restore public trust in the security of its network at its annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday. Founder Mark Zuckerberg said he stood by his initial statement, that he knew nothing about Prism and did not hand over any user data to the government unless it was legally required to do so.