It's not enough, but it's sure a start: with post-PRISM privacy backlash still flaring, Facebook pressed the US government to allow some limited disclosure of gag order demands. This is our first glimpse at how much of our data is handed over.

PRISM—whatever it is in all exactness—is far from the only way Microsoft tips off the American defense apparatus. Sometimes, Bloomberg says, it's just as simple as telling the feds what's broken.