FACEBOOK'S GOVERNMENT USER DATA REQUESTS UP 24% (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Wednesday, November 05, 2014, 00:25

Requests by governments for Facebook's user data are up by nearly a quarter in the first half of this year compared to the previous six months.

Global government requests were up by 24% to almost 35,000 in the first six months, the social media giant said.

The amount of Facebook content restricted because of local laws also rose about 19% in the same period.

News of the increase comes as Facebook fights its largest ever US court order to hand over data from 400 people.

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