In other National Security Agency news, the Internet giant Google has asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to lift its longstanding gag orders on the disclosure of government requests for customer information. Citing the need for “greater transparency,” Google says it wants permission to publicly disclose “aggregate numbers of national security requests, including FISA disclosures.” Google was one of nine tech companies named in leaked NSA documents as providing the government with direct access to users’ information through the surveillance program PRISM.