The U.S. government has decided to release data annually on its secret spy orders and the number of people affected by them. The disclosures will be broken down under certain categories such as data requests under the business records provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The move follows demands by lawmakers, rights groups and Internet companies that the government should release more information on the secret collection of data by the National Security Agency. Most of these data requests have been in the form of “gag orders,” which prohibit the recipients of data request orders from discussing them in public.”]