Facebook received more than 25,000 requests from governments about its users in the first half of 2013. Nearly half of those requests came from U.S. law enforcement and related agencies, the company says. The “vast majority” of the requests related to criminal cases, Facebook’s general counsel says. Google and some other tech companies have released similar reports about government requests. Privacy group: Facebook report only details lawful data requests, but privacy group applauds Facebook’s transparency report, but says it has little use.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2133901/facebook-got-25k-government-requests-about-users.html

