India asks for record access to Facebook users' data in 2020 1st half
The requests by the Indian government to seek access to Facebook users' data
further increased in the first six months of this year, second only to the US
government, the social networking giant has revealed.
In total, India requested Facebook to provide
data in 35,560 cases in the January-June 2020 period -- significantly up from
26,698 queries about users' data in the second half of 2019.
Facebook provided
data in 50 per cent of the requests, according to its latest biannual
Transparency Report.
"We have strict guidelines in place to deal with all
government data requests," Facebook said in a statement late on Thursday.
There were a total of 33,374 legal requests and 2,186 emergency
requests from India.
There was also an increase in the Indian government's request to
preserve account information too, pending the receipt of formal legal process.
In the January-June 2020 period, India asked for 4,100 accounts to
be preserved, from 2,500 account requests in earlier reported periods.
Globally, during the first six months of 2020, the government
requests for user data increased by 23 per cent from 1,40,875 to 1,73,592.
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