Phone giant Verizon(s vz), which is at the center of an ongoing scandal over surveillance, is taking a cue from Silicon Valley tech firms and announcing that it will publish reports about government requests for customer data.

In a blog post Thursday afternoon, Verizon stated that its first so-called Transparency Report will appear in early 2014 and that “it will identify the total number of law enforcement agency requests received from government authorities in criminal cases.”

The practice of publishing such statistics was inaugurated by Google several years ago, and has since been copied by nearly every Silicon Valley tech giant, including Facebook(s fb) and Apple(s aapl). The reports disclose how often police departments and agencies like the FBI use warrants, subpoenas and other legal tools to obtain information about customers. The companies are currently in a bitter fight before America’s secret spy court over the right to disclose how…