Transparency Report

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A transparency report is a regularly issued statement from a company disclosing a variety statistics regarding how often data or records in the company's possession are requested by a government. Transparency reports generally disclose how frequently and under what authority governments have requested data or records over a certain period of time. This form of corporate transparency allows the public to discern how frequently governments request and gain access to private data through search warrants and court subpoenas, among other methods. Several companies have lobbied the U.S. government to allow the number of received secret data requests (requests which include a gag order), including National Security Letters, to be described within ranges in the report. Some transparency reports describe how often, as a result of government action or under copyright provisions, content was removed. Transparency reports are issued today by a variety of technology and communications companies, including Google, Microsoft, Verizon, AT&T, twitter, and Apple.

External links

Kashmir Hill, Forbes. Thanks, Snowden! Now All The Major Tech Companies Reveal How Often They Give Data To Government, November, 2013.
Ryan Budish, The Atlantic. What Transparency Reports Don't Tell Us, December, 2013.
Google's Transparency Report. "Transparency Report"

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