Apple and a host of other tech companies, including Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Reddit, have all signed their name to a letter expressing support for proposed bills that would enable them to reveal more details about government requests for information.
The bills in question include the Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013 and the Surveillance Order Reporting act of 2013. Both bills would allow companies to release to the public statistical information about secretive government requests made to "Internet, telephone, and web-based service providers for information about their users and subscribers."
The letter, which also
