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Introduction
Transparancy reports are defined as 'reports from telcos and tech companies on government request'
2010 - first report by google
2015 - 46 companies report - a massive rise
Questions for debate by moderator:
1. Why do some companies frefrain from publishing (amazon)
2. Value of these reports
Topics from the audience?
3. FOR requests from countries, possible instruments
4. difference between different requests; in terms of reporting (i.e. law enforcing vs nat. security)
5. are these reports available in open data?
Yes, csv
6. Are there analysis on the differences between countries
helpquestion: Companies always allowed to report? Answer: Depends
helpquestion: Only requests? or also what happend (results)? Depends
Transparency reporting is needed to better inform users and investors on where and how data and networks are at risk. It also sheds light into corporate policies and decisionmaking processes, increasing trust and accountability.
Silk collected all Transparency Reports from major service providers and normalized them into a comprehensive data resource for investigating government requests for users' data.
https://transparency-reports.silk.co/
Here you can find the notes on methodology:
https://transparency-reports.silk.co/page/Notes
The list of Transparency reports from AccessNow:
https://www.accessnow.org/pages/transparency-reporting-index