Facebook Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. are asking the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to allow them to release the details about the national security orders the government gives them. Google Inc. had previously filed a similar request.

The companies said in their petition that they want approval to release aggregate data when requested under national-security laws. Currently, companies are not allowed to “break out the number of requests they get for user data under national security statutes, as opposed to inquiries by law enforcement,” Bloomberg reports.

These requests by companies, which also include Microsoft Corp., come in the wake of the controversy surrounding Edward Snowden, a computer specialist who leaked details of several top-secret U.S. and British government mass surveillance programs to the press. These companies would like greater latitude in disclosing the types of requests for user-data it gets from the government in an effort to “be as transparent as possible,” the request said.