Facebook Receives Second-Highest Scrutiny Requests From India: Report
India, Nov. 15 -- Recently, the Indian government found itself in thick soup after allegations of snooping on journalists, activists, etc, during the election time, surfaced. Now, all eyes are again back on the data privacy issue in the country after Facebook recently published a report on different governments' scrutiny requests to the social media company.
According to Facebook's Transparency Report, in the first half of 2019, the Indian government had asked for 22,684 requests for user data of 33,324 users/accounts from the social media company. Moreover, India was only lagging behind the US which asked the social media company for 50,714 user data requests of 82,461 users/accounts.
Facebook, however, said that out of these 22,684 da...
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