Government Data Requests To Facebook Up By 24%

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 5, 2014 @04:05AM from the strong-YoY-growth dept.

davidshenba writes: Facebook has revealed that government requests for user data has increased by 24% to nearly 35,000 during the first six months of the year. Also content restrictions due to local laws increased by 19% in the same period. According to Facebook, they scrutinize every government request for legal sufficiency and "push back hard when we find deficiencies or are served with overly broad requests." Already Facebook is fighting its largest ever legal battle against a U.S. court order to handover 400 users' data.

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I will never have Facebook by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-05 04:21 · Score: 5, Funny

I will never have Facebook. I have lost friends because of this (they won't call me to invite me to things and insist on using facebook) but I have made more than enough new ones at my local Linux Users Group