UBS said in a statement that it was aware of the request, known as a John Doe summons, and that "UBS takes this matter very seriously and is working diligently with both Swiss and U.S. government authorities, consistent with Swiss law and the legal frameworks for intergovernmental cooperation and assistance".
Flores, a pioneer of cop-watching in New York going back around 15 years, tried to obtain NYPD surveillance footage of the night of the Puerto Rican day incident by filing a Freedom of Information Act request, known as a FOIA or FOIL request.
The new policy places stricter conditions on when Immigration and Customs Enforcement sends requests, known as detainers, to local law-enforcement agencies asking them to hold suspected immigration violators in jail until the government can pick them up.
The act would require the police to let such people go, even if Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have issued voluntary requests, known as detainers, that they be held until they can be picked up for deportation.
The company said that later this year it would file a brief in a federal appeals court in support of a case seeking greater transparency with the secret government requests known as national security letters.
The government says more than 50,000 of these requests, known as national security letters, are sent each year, but they come with gag orders that prevent those contacted from revealing what the agency has been seeking or even the existence of the gag orders.
Other Internet experts in the United States said the attacks against Georgia's Internet infrastructure began as early as July 20, with coordinated barrages of millions of requests — known as distributed denial of service, or D.D.O.S., attacks — that overloaded and effectively shut down Georgian servers.
For dynamic scenarios, much effort has been spent on accommodating sharply increasing requests (known as flash crowd) with effective solutions being developed.
The Inspector General focused on the FBI's unlawful misuse of the already-unconstitutional informal requests known as "exigent letters" to demand information that they knew was illegal.
Google receives 20 million "takedown" requests, officially known as DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) notices, a month.
In less than a month, five of those eight companies have said they will not respond to Pakistan's request for proposals, known as an RFP.
