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Steep rise in government data requests from India: Facebook report
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IANS | 16 Nov, 2018
Facebook has recorded 16,580 data requests from the Indian government in
the first six months of 2018 -- a steep rise compared to a total of
22,024 requests in the full year of 2017 and 13,613 in 2016.
In
the January-June 2018 period, Facebook provided some data to the
government in 53 per cent of the requests, although the social
networking giant did not reveal which kind of data as it published its
transparency report late on Thursday.
Facebook responds to government requests for data in accordance with applicable law and its terms of service.
"Each
and 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," the company said.
Facebook
also received 15,963 requests from India for "legal process," 23,047
users' requests and 617 emergency requests (half of these were met).
In
May this year, Facebook said it recorded a massive increase in the
total number of Indian government requests for 2017 -- a rise of nearly
62 per cent compared to the global average of 30 per cent.
The
social networking major also accepts government requests to preserve
account information pending receipt of formal legal process.
"When
we receive a preservation request, we will preserve a temporary
snapshot of the relevant account information but will not disclose any
of the preserved records unless and until we receive formal and valid
legal process," said Facebook which received 1,000 such requests from
India.
Globally, the government requests for account data
increased by around 26 per cent compared to the second half of 2017 --
increasing from 82,341 to 103,815 requests.
In the US,
government requests increased by about 30 per cent, of which 56 per cent
included a non-disclosure order prohibiting Facebook from notifying the
user.
"During the first half of 2018, the number of pieces of
content we restricted based on local law increased 7 per cent, from
14,280 to 15,337," said Chris Sonderby, Vice President and Deputy
General Counsel.
It also identified 48 disruptions of Facebook
services in eight countries in the new reporting period, compared to 46
disruptions in 12 countries in the second half of 2017.
During
this period, Facebook and Instagram took down 2,999,278 pieces of
content based on 466,810 copyright reports, 203,375 pieces of content
based on 69,756 trademark reports, and 641,059 pieces of content based
on 29,828 counterfeit reports.
The Facebook transparency report
includes "information about government requests for user data we've
received; reports on where access to Facebook products and services was
disrupted; the number of content restrictions based on local law; and
reports of counterfeit, copyright, and trademark infringement".
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