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The Indian government asked Facebook for user data over 20,000 times in six months

The Indian government made 20,805 requests for user data - including 861 emergency requests - to Facebook between July and December 2018, the company’s revealed in its latest Transparency Report. The report said Facebook provided “some data” in response to more than half (53%) of these requests, which involved 27,410 Facebook accounts. By comparison, Facebook had received 16,580 data requests from the government, involving 23,047 accounts, in the first half of 2018. Since 2013, the number of such requests has gone down over a six-month period only once, between July-Dec 2014 and Jan-June 2015. Its worth noting that the government made 3,245 requests in the first half of 2013. Facebook for its part says, “We respond to government requests for data in accordance with applicable law and our terms of service. Every request we receive is carefully reviewed for legal sufficiency and we may reject or require greater specificity on requests that appear overly broad or vague.” Emergency and legal requests The company disclosed how many user data requests were accompanied by a legal process (legal process requests) and how many were not (emergency requests). The number of emergency requests for data by the Indian government rose to 861 from 617 in the first half of 2018, and Facebook said it produced some data in response to 46% of them. The number of such requests has been increasing steadily since Jan-June 2016, when just 42 were made. Legal process requests were up to 19,944 from 15,963 in the previous six…

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