23.01.2014 - 09:44 [ Techdirt ]

Verizon Finally Releases Transparency Report Showing Many Requests, But Scale Of Those Requests Is Missing

After quite a lot of pressure, both Verizon and AT&T agreed last month to issue transparency reports like those that Google has offered for years, and which most of the other large internet companies have started offering in the last year or two. Verizon released its first one today, showing that it‘s pretty busy handling government requests. These are the numbers from 2013: