The Indian government's information requests to Twitter have gone up over the years, reveals Twitter's bi-annual Transparency report. In the first half (H1) of 2018, i.e. January to June 2018, the government sought information on 355 accounts. In H2 of 2017, government sought information for 315 accounts and in between January to June (H1) of 2017, the government requested information on 261 Twitter accounts. In H1 2018, the number of requests has gone up by 12.6% as compared to the last report. India stood at sixth position among the countries making maximum account information requests. The top five countries from which information requests are made: Country Account information requests % of requests where some information produced Accounts specified USA 2,231 76% 9,226 Japan 1,426 67% 1,907 UK 947 70% 1,255 Turkey 445 0% 765 France 431 56% 723 Twitter, in all, received 6,904 account information requests. This is 10% more government information requests - the largest percentage increase since the July-December 2015 report- said Twitter. Highlights from Twitter's H1 2018 report Emergency disclosure requests by the government: The volume of global emergency disclosure requests (EDRs) continued to increase during the reporting period of H1, 2018. 23% of total global information requests received between January 1 - June 30, 2018 were EDRs. There was an increase of 36% in total EDRs received and 35% more accounts were specified compared to the previous report. India made 49 emergency disclosure requests and was among the top five countries making EDRs (see the table). Country EDRs %…
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