Facebook is opening up its ledger of government probes for user information, revealing over 25,600 separate requests in the first half of 2013. Today, the company launched its "Global Government Requests Report," a chart laying out how often various countries order Facebook to give up data about a user and how many of those requests are honored. Overall, at least 25,607 orders were put in for 37,954 separate accounts in the first six months of this year, with nearly half of them coming from the United States. Virtually no country had all its requests honored, but the total numbers were often still high: in the US, 79 percent of requests were honored at least in part.
The table lists anything made by any government branch, from standard...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/27/4663622/facebook-transparency-report-shows-government-requests-for-user-data
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