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Facebook said it received about 12,600 requests for information about its users from law enforcement.
- Eric Van Susteren
- Digital Producer- Silicon Valley Business Journal
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Facebook said it received 12,598 requests for information from law enforcement for about 18,175 users in the United States between July and December 2013, according to its bi-annual transparency report released today.
The company said that it complied with 81 percent of those requests and that it received between 0 and 999 requests from the NSA, which frustratingly requires its requests be reported in groups of 1,000.
Last period's report (which ran from January to June 2013) from Facebook was less precise, saying only that the government made between 11,000 and 12,000 requests on between 20,000 and 21,000 users. It complied with 79 percent of requests.
Facebook and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, have been particularly vocal about the NSA and its secret spying program, PRISM, which mined data about the users of the social network and eight other major tech companies.
Facebook produced data for 85 percent of data requests to fulfill search warrants , 80 percent of requests for subpoenas, 39.5 percent for emergency disclosures and 84 percent for "other."
Eric Van Susteren is the Digital Producer at the Silicon Valley Business Journal.
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