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A consumer organization concludes that when it comes to protecting customer information from government requests, Snapchat has a dismal record of failure, and Comcast, AT&T and Amazon aren’t far behind. The report by the Electronic Frontier...

Airbnb received 188 requests for users’ data from governments around the world in the first six months of this year, according to the company’s first-ever transparency report. The home-sharing company provided data in response to 82 of those requests...

Yahoo published its first global transparency report today detailing the number of government requests for user data throughout the first six months of 2013. The US came out on top, with 12,444 data requests spanning 40,322 different accounts or users...

Yahoo knocked back a third of government requests for user data in Australia, according to a transparency report released by the Internet company.

The largest Internet companies in the United States have joined forces with top civil liberties groups to call on the White House and Congress to increase the transparency surrounding the government’s controversial National Security Agency surveillance...