12-11-2015 10:31 via wired.co.uk

Government demands for Facebook data spike 43 percent

Facebook's revealed it received 43% more requests for its users information from police and the government in the first half of this year compared to the end of last year.
For the six months from January to June UK law enforcement authorities and the government asked Facebook to cough up data about accounts 3,384 times, the company's latest transparency report has shown.By: Matt Burgess, Continue reading...
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