16,580

Data requests from Indian government to Facebook

Facebook says there was a steep rise in data requests from India’s government in the first half of this year compared to the previous two years. The company said in a report released Friday that it received 16,580 data requests from the government in the JanuaryJune period compared to 22,024 requests in all of 2017 and 13,613 in 2016. Facebook said it provided data in 53 per cent of the cases.