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Facebook received 40,300 requests for user data from Indian government, restricted access to 878 items in India
A new Facebook report shares insights into the user data requests received by the company from governments around the world, in the second half of 2020.
Sarthak Dogra | May 21, 2021 | Updated 09:52 IST
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Of these, 40,300 requests were received from the Indian government.
Facebook produced some data for 52 per cent of these requests.
Facebook recently shared the nature of government requests it has received from all around the world for user data in the second half of 2020. As per the report, the social media major received 40,300 requests from the Indian government for user data in India.
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Received 40,300 requests for user data from Indian govt: Facebook report
The US-based company restricted access to 878 items in India during the second half of 2020 in response to directions from the IT Ministry for violating Section 69A of the Information Technology Act.
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Facebook responds to government requests for data in accordance with applicable law and our terms of service. (File | AP) By PTI
NEW DELHI: Social media giant Facebook said it has received 40,300 requests from the Indian government for user data in the second half of 2020.
This was 13.3 per cent higher from the January-June 2020 period when India had made 35,560 total requests, according to the Facebook s latest Transparency Report.