How Regulators Forced Verizon to Cooperate on Data Collection

The furor over the disclosure that technology companies gave customer data to the government's national security agencies is the topic of my column this week. Verizon offered an explanation to shareholders in its annual report to the Securities and Exchange Commission filed months before the Guardian article that triggered intensive news coverage. Please check out the column at Time magazine (here), the New York Sun (here), Reason (here), and Newsmax (here).