Story 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 (Image: Reuters) 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.