Google released its latest transparency report today, revealing tens of thousands of law enforcement requests from across the world. Its a 120 percent jump in requests over the past four years, something legal director Richard Salgado attributes the jump to more and more governments start[ing] to exercise their authority to make requests in the years […]
Not to be outdone by its competitors (or future owner), Time Warner Cable has released a transparency report of its own. From January to June last year, the telco obeyed some 12,000 information requests from the government that break down as such. Of the legal requests, 82 percent were for subpoenas, 12 percent were for […]
Last December a startup called Buffer revealed their salaries and suddenly the word “transparency” was bouncing around the tech world. The response was “heartwarming,” COO Leo Widrich told me. But while some startups are emulating Buffer, the benefits of transparency can get a little foggy. The hope, he told the Journal, was that the open […]
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