The Global Network Initiative, which includes Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft, has asked [21] countries to "report on the requests they make for electronic communications surveillance and to make it legally possible for companies to report regularly to the public on the government requests that they receive from law enforcement as well as national security authorities"…Copies were sent to representatives at the UN offices in Geneva, in advance of discussions on human rights and communications surveillance at the 24th session of the Human Rights Council…The tech firms say they are not allowed to reveal the number of national security requests, and that more transparency would boost the confidence of their users…