Monday, January 28, 2013

Twitter's 2012 transparency report reveals many DMCA takedown requests, few from government

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Twitter has just released its second transparency report along with a new transparency website, providing new data for the latter six months of 2012. The full-year perspective shows that Twitter mostly deals with Digital Millenium Copyright Act takedowns; receiving a total of 6,646 copyright takedown requests and just 46 government takedown requests. Governments seemed more interested in user data last year, making 1,858 information requests. There wasn't a huge shift in any category in the second half of the year except for government takedown requests, which rose from 6 to 42, but with only two data points, there's not much of a trend to glean from Twitter's reporting just yet.


In a blog post announcing the report, Twitter writes that...


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