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Microsoft Got 594 User Data Requests From Indian Government In 2012

Microsoft received a total of 418 requests for disclosure of 594 users & accounts from the Indian government for the calendar year 2012, it has revealed as a part of its Law Enforcement Requests report. Although Microsoft complied with none of the requests resulting in disclosure of exact content, it complied with as many as 370 or 88.5% requests resulting in disclosure of subscriber/transactional (non-content) data. The company mentioned that the content disclosed could include the subject or body of an email, photos stored in SkyDrive, address book information and calendars, while non-content information could include the user’s name, billing address and IP history among others. This is the first time that Microsoft has revealed the number of requests it receives from each government or law enforcement agency. The company also revealed that 44 requests or 10.5% of requests resulted in disclosure of no customer data, that is, no data was found and around 4 requests or 1% of requests resulted in disclosure of no customer data or request rejected for not meeting legal requirements. The report states that some customer data was disclosed in revealing disclosure of content/non-content data requests. Skype As for Skype, Microsoft received a total of 53 requests for disclosure of 101 accounts/identifiers from the Indian government for the year 2012. Microsoft did not comply with any of the requests. Between July 2012 to December 2012, there were requests for 47 accounts specified in requests where compliance team found no data. Skype compliance team provided general guidance to the Indian law enforcement agency 10 times between…

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