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Currently it is legal for a company to truthfully state that it has not received any NSLs. Therefore, we can assume any company that won't outright claim such a denial to have received at least one.


They've pretty much outright admitted to receiving them:

"We've urged the government to allow online services to disclose the exact number of national security requests received in a reporting period without revealing details about specific requests."


They usually remember to end these sentences with "...if any". :P


Absense of proof is not proof of absense.


Absence of proof in a place where you would expect to find proof is strong evidence of absence, though. A transparency report which includes sentences like "We want to report the exact number of national security requests we receive, if any" is a pretty blatant statement that the number is greater than zero.




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