India asks for record access to FB users’ data in 2020 1st half

The requests by the Indian government to seek access to Facebook users’ data further increased in the first six months of this year, second only to the US government, the social networking giant has revealed.

In total, India requested Facebook to provide data in 35,560 cases in the January-June 2020 period — significantly up from 26,698 queries about users’ data in the second half of 2019.

Facebook provided data in 50 per cent of the requests, according to its latest biannual Transparency Report.

“We have strict guidelines in place to deal with all government data requests,” Facebook said in a statement late on Thursday.

There were a total of 33,374 legal requests and 2,186 emergency requests from India.

There was also an increase in the Indian government’s request to preserve account information too, pending the receipt of formal legal process.

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