Companies Hailed for Issuing Transparency Reports

Numerous companies, including Apple, Dropbox, Facebook, and Reddit have been applauded for issuing regular transparency reports in the wake of the disclosure of information about NSA spying by Edward Snowden. These reports detail how often the company received and responded to government requests for its users’ data. Press described the trend toward issuing such reports as so overwhelming as to become “commonplace for Internet companies,” while privacy advocates called the information “invaluable.”