In light of Monday’s agreement by the U.S. Department of Justice to allow Internet companies to disclose more aggregated data on law enforcement requests for access to user information, Hogan Lovells’ Christopher Wolf delves into whether increased transparency will quell concerns over government access. In this post for Privacy Perspectives, Wolf writes, “The transparency reports, which soon will have greater granularity, should help the world understand that the U.S. is hardly alone in its national security practices and that reform needs to be viewed as a global concern.” Editor’s Note: Wolf will moderate a panel at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit on “Governmental Access to Private-Sector Data: The Realities and Impacts in the U.S. and EU” featuring former NSA General Counsel Stewart Baker, Civil Liberties Protection Officer Alexander Joel, CIPP/US, CIPP/G, and the ACLU’s Chris Calabrese.
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