Tag: Transparency Reports
Telecom giant Vodafone releases groundbreaking transparency report
Vodafone, the world’s largest international mobile provider, released its “Law Enforcement Disclosure Report” today, which gives statistics on user data requests in 14 countries including Albania, Tanzania, Hungary, and other jurisdictions that have never before released this type of information.
Access welcomes the first transparency report from Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom discloses its 2013 requests from German law enforcement.
Australian Telco Telstra Releases First Transparency Report
Last month Telstra became the first non-U.S. telco to release a regular report on government and law enforcement requests for user data.
Verizon report bolsters calls to reform metadata protections
This week Verizon became the first multinational telco to release a Transparency Report on law enforcement requests.
CREDO steals telcos’ thunder with new transparency report
After years of public calls for telco transparency, today marks a historic moment: the release of the first-ever telco transparency report. We applaud CREDO Mobile for being the first telco in the world to issue such a report, detailing their responses to law enforcement requests for user data.
AT&T takes first step toward transparency
Following close on Verizon’s heels, AT&T today announced it will begin to publish a semi-annual online transparency report in early 2014. This announcement is an abrupt about-face for the company, which only two weeks ago requested that the SEC allow it to ignore a shareholder proposal calling for exactly such transparency.
Access applauds Verizon decision to break ranks in favor of transparency
Access welcomes today’s news that Verizon Communications has broken ranks with telcos globally by announcing that it will issue a transparency report. It will be the first telco to do so. We call on all telcos to release regular, detailed transparency reports: Anything less is a failure of their human rights obligations and their investors’ expectations.
Obama Administration continues to thwart meaningful transparency on NSA surveillance
Coming on the heels of an announcement yesterday that the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence will start releasing a transparency report of national security-related requests for user data, the US government disappointingly will be filing a motion to block Google and Microsoft from voluntarily disclosing similar statistics in the company’s own transparency reports.
Facebook releases statistics casting light on government requests for user data
Today, Facebook released its first Global Government Requests Report detailing the number of requests for user data the company receives from governments around the world.
Internet companies fight US government’s surveillance silence
As secrets about the NSA’s surveillance programs continue to command the world’s attention, some communications companies involved are advocating that the US government allow them to reveal more about their participation in the programs in order to maintain their reputations.