Facebook reveals government demands for more profile data and information.
Facebook has disclosed data requests’ reports. The social media giant stated government’s requests for information and demand for content to be removed increased in the first six months of 2015, which the social platform has witnessed continuously growing since it started to publicly release such data two years ago.
Government’s demands for details internationally increased by 18% in the first six months of this year to 42,214, which was 35,051 requests during the same time last year, the company posted in a blog.
Facebook News exclaimed that the volume of content removed for breaching local regulations increased by more than 200% when compared with the same time in the second six months of last year to 20,568 pieces of content, it stated. Majority of the government demands are related to felony cases, such as kidnaps or burglaries.
The government has often demanded subscriber details, account data, or internet protocol addresses, including online posts. The American law enforcement departments made most of the demands, whereas U.S. agencies demanded information from 26,579 profiles – consisting of greater than 60% of demands internationally – up from 21,731 profiles last year. A number of other states, including Britain, France, and Germany accounted for large proportion of the demands.
Facebook mobile informed that these countries had imposed restrictions on more content this year. Some content removed in Germany may be concerned with Holocaust, the social network stated. Guardian reported that Turkey and India played a role in making the social media remove majority of the posted content for breaching local regulations. India made Facebook restrict 15,155 content pieces – nearly 300% the quantity last year – whereas the content items removed on Turkish government’s requests increased from 3624 to 4496 items.
Facebook News today reported that the tech industry has demanded higher levels of transparency on government information requests, attempting to address their concerns about their engagement in vast, secretive programs disclosed by former spy agency’s contractor, Edward Snowden.
The company wrote, “Facebook does not provide any government with ‘back doors’ or direct access to people’s data”. Since 2014, a number of other organizations, such as include Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Corporation have posted reports regarding data sharing requests they receive.
Facebook Breaking news affirmed that the report has been shared at a time when a Belgian court has ordered the company to stop tracing nonmembers in Belgium without their approval.
Although Facebook has tried to justify its attempts to gather data, people remain skeptical about the social media platform.
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