Transparency Reporting for Beginners
Channel: Access Now
Date: 2014-03-20

Katherine Maher, Advocacy Director, Access (Moderator) 

Participants: 
Becky Bond, Vice President and Political Director, CREDO Mobile 
Ali Kazemi, Associate General Counsel, Tumblr 
Bart Volkmer, Legal Director, Dropbox 
Dorothy Chou, Policy Communications Manager, Google 
Ryan Budish, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society 
Kevin Bankston, Policy Director, Open Technology Institute, New America Foundation

Since Google published its first "transparency report" in 2010, many other Internet companies large and small have started issuing there own reports on government demands for user data. And now, in light of recent revelations about the scope of the National Security Agency's surveillance of the Internet through programs like "PRISM", a broad coalition of companies, privacy advocates and transparency experts have joined together to demand that the government allow even more reporting about national security surveillance.  In this session, participants learned from some of those companies, advocates and experts about the opportunities and challenges that come with doing your own transparency reporting, and heard why transparency reporting is good for privacy and free speech, good for democracy, good for a company's bottom line, and good for the Internet industry as a whole.