In light of recent accusations that Microsoft had colluded with the National Security Agency in order to gain access to a large amount of customer information, the Washington-based software giant is putting pressure on the government in hopes that it will be permitted to share more information on NSA data requests.

The Microsoft allegations are the latest in a series of controversies that have sprung up around the web since information concerning the NSA’s PRISM program leaked at the beginning of June. PRISM reportedly gives the government the ability to produce covert court orders and has been used to request the sharing of sensitive customer information from a number of major internet-based companies such as Google and Facebook.

Microsoft, with email services like Outlook and Hotmail, the cloud-based storage service Skydrive, and the video-chat program Skype, has also been involved in the PRISM uproar since the beginning. However, the situation heated up considerably for the company last week,when a report published by The Guardian claimed that Microsoft had collaborated more closely with the NSA than was initially believed. According the report, Microsoft actively worked to allow the government free access to their users’ information, helping the NSA to break through Microsoft encryption, and installing software capabilities that allowed for easier interception.

Those accusations are certainly damning, but Microsoft’s reaction to the uproar suggests that, perhaps, the general public still hasn’t heard the whole story. In a blogpost published on Tuesday, Brad Smith, the General Counsel and Executive Vice President for Microsoft’s Legal & Corporate Affairs department, reprimanded the government for the secretive manner in which they have handled the PRISM controversy. In response to the initial PRISM leaks, many major companies revealed information about the number of requests they had received for user information. Now, Microsoft is demanding more freedom to be honest with its customers.

“We believe the U.S. Constitution guarantees our freedom to share more information with the public, yet the Government is stopping us,” Smith wrote.

In his blogpost, Smith went on to describe how Microsoft has responded to information requests in connection to each of the services implicated in the Guardian article. And while Microsoft has admitted compliance with numerous PRISM requests–as nearly all major internet-oriented companies have–Smith vehemently denied the allegations that the company had purposely broken down its encryption to aid governmental privacy invasions.

“First, while we did discuss legal compliance requirements with the government as reported last week, in none of these discussions did Microsoft provide or agree to provide any government with direct access to user content or the ability to break our encryption,” Smith wrote. “Second, these discussions were instead about how Microsoft would meet its continuing obligation to comply with the law by providing specific information in response to lawful government orders.”