Google asks US surveillance court permission to publish request data "However, greater transparency is needed, so today we have petitioned the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to allow us to publish aggregate numbers of national security requests, including FISA disclosures, separately," a Google spokesman said. Google said it was seeking a court ruling to allow it to publish "limited, aggregate statistics" on orders for the company to hand over data. "Google's reputation and business has been harmed by the false and misleading reports in the media, and Google's users are concerned by the allegations," the petition said. The company said it was asking the court to affirm its "right" under the First Amendment of the US Constitution to publish the information. Google's move comes after other tech companies, including Microsoft Corp, Facebook Inc and Apple Inc released limited information about the number of surveillance requests they receive under an agreement they struck with the US government last week. Under that agreement, the companies were only allowed to disclose aggregate requests for data made by government agencies - without showing the split between surveillance and criminal requests - and only for a six-month period.