Verizon to Show Law Enforcement Requests for Consumer Data

Verizon Communications, taking action amid pressure from shareholders, said it will begin providing information on requests law-enforcement officials make for customer data.

Verizon will begin in early 2014 with a report on 2013 requests in the US and other countries where it operates, it said. Subsequent disclosures will follow every six months. While the information will include police and Federal Bureau of Investigation requests, it will leave out US National Security Agency queries. “We have disclosed much of this data over the past two years, primarily in response to requests from legislators,” said Bob Varettoni, a spokesman for Verizon. “The publication of an online transparency report is our way to make this information more consistently and easily available.”