Between January 1st and June 30th 2015, Twitter did not withhold any tweets in India, the company revealed in its latest Transparency Report. In this period, the microblogging site received 2 court ordered removal requests and 31 removal requests from the police and various other government agencies. It complied with none of these requests. It’s worth noting that in second half of 2014, the agency received only 14 removal requests from the police and various other government agencies and 1 court order. Similarly, not a single tweet was withheld in that time period, or in the six months preceding that. User information requests: Twitter received 113 government requests for account information from India that specified 2,963 accounts between January-June 2015. Out of this, Twitter complied with 19% of the requests. The requests number is a significant increase from the 41 government requests that specified 1,938 user accounts the second half of 2014, of which the company had complied with 22% of the requests. Note that in the first 6 months of 2014, Twitter had received only 16 government requests that specified 44 user accounts. Overall, for the first half of this year, Twitter received 4,363 information requests for 12,711 accounts and the company provided some information in 58% of the cases. The maximum requests originated from the US (2,436) followed by Japan (425) and Turkey (412). Removal requests: A total of 442 court ordered removal requests were received by Twitter and 561 from various government agencies, police etc. Of this, Twitter…
