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Following in the footsteps of companies like Google and Facebook, Verizon Communications is going to reveal more about what customer information it shares with the government.

In a statement released on Thursday, the company announced plans to publish its first transparency report, which will provide data on the number of law enforcement requests for customer information it received this year.

“In the past year, there has been greater focus than ever on the use of legal demands by governments around the world to obtain customer data,” Randal S. Milch, Verizon’s general counsel and executive vice president for public policy, said in a statement. “Like others in the industry, the aim of our transparency report is to keep our customers informed about government requests for their data and how we respond to those requests.”

The report, which will likely be published in early 2014, will break out this data in categories like subpoenas, court orders and warrants, the company said.

Verizon and AT&T, two of the country’s biggest wireless carriers, have come under scrutiny for their cooperation with government surveillance programs. A court order revealed that the Obama administration secretly collected records for calls made between the United States and abroad, as well as calls within the United States. In November, it was revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency paid AT&T about $10 million a year for access to its enormous database of phone records, including Americans’ international phone calls.

In response, activist shareholders sent resolutions to AT&T and Verizon demanding that the companies publish regular reports on how they share customer information with government agencies for surveillance efforts. The shareholders said the carriers hurt customers’ trust by not disclosing more about the data they shared. Both companies rebuffed the resolutions in recent weeks.

Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo have all published transparency reports about government data requests. Like those companies, Verizon said it could not disclose information requests from government agencies regarding matters of national security.

“Verizon is taking an important step toward transparency, and I call on the other wireless carriers to follow its lead and regularly disclose their law enforcement requests for wireless information,” Senator Edward J. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, said in a statement. “Reporting is a critical first step towards informing Americans about the nature and extent of wireless surveillance. We need to put rules on the books that protect Americans’ privacy and rights.”

Jonas Kron, the director of shareholder advocacy at Trillium Asset Management, an investment firm that submitted the proposal to Verizon, said that his company was pleased with Thursday’s announcement, but he urged Verizon do more to implement reforms that ensure customer privacy.

“Transparency reports such as these are important first steps that companies can take to protect the privacy of their customers and users,” he said.