Verizon transparency report reveals 320,000 data requests in 2013

Mission accomplished for Edward Snowden – at least a little bit.

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) said federal, state and local authorities asked the company to hand over user data 321,545 times in 2013, according to the Washington Post.

The communications company vowed to produce the annual report following the National Security Agency revelations by Snowden, a former NSA contractor.

According to the Post, the majority of requests, about 164,000, came from law enforcement subpoenas, followed by about 71,000 court orders. In 2013, the company fielded 7,800 requests for real-time information about a person's outbound and inbound calls — but of those, only about 1,500 were actual wiretap requests leading to the surveillance of a call's content.

While Verizon didn't track such data in 2012, the company says requests were higher in 2013.

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