The Indian government made a total of 789 requests for information on Twitter accounts — fourth highest in the world — through law enforcement and other government agencies between July and December 2019, according to Twitter’s latest transparency report. This marked a 66.5% increase over requests made between January and June 2019, the steepest increase in number since January-July 2012. India accounted for 9% of all such requests made. Of this, 662 were routine requests while 127 were emergency requests. Between July and December 2019, the Indian government identified 2,873 accounts in their requests for information, a 126.6% increase since January-June 2019. The platform complied with 1.7% of these requests. The July-December 2019 period is beaten only by January-June 2015 period when the government identified 2,963 accounts for information. India has made 3,264 requests for account information since January 2012 in which identified 13,459 accounts. Twitter complied with 13.3% of all such requests between January 2012 and December 2019, hitting a high of 41.8% between July-December 2015. Twitter received 782 legal demands to remove content between Jul-Dec 2019 Twitter got 782 legal demands to remove content between July and December 2019, a 55.2% increase January-June 2019, and had a compliance rate of 36.7%. Strangely, the compliance rate for previous periods has not been specified. 1,230 accounts were specified through court orders and 6,604 accounts were specified through other government demands. This is a 215.4% increase over accounts specified between January and June 2019. As a result, it withheld 16 accounts…
