Between July and December 2017, the Indian government made 315 Twitter account information requests, up from 261 made during the January-June period, and asked the micro-blogging website to remove 144 accounts, up from 102 from the previous period. According to Twitter’s 12th bi-annual Transparency Report that was released late Thursday, the company withheld content in three percent of the account removal requests from the ... Read More »
Google Says Government Data Requests Have Risen 10 Percent in Last 6 Months Google said Wednesday that data requests from governments around the world hit a record high in the six months ending in June, extending a steady rise. The 44,943 requests amounted to a 10 percent increase from the prior six-month period and a fourth consecutive increase, Google said ... Read More »
FBI requests for customer records beneath a secretive surveillance order multiplied with the aid of nearly50 percentage in 2015, according to a US government transparency file published this week. internet and telecommunications organizations in 2015 received forty eight,642 requests, up from 33,024mentioned in 2014, for data via so-referred to as countrywide security Letters (NSLs). The NSL is a toolutilized by ... Read More »
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