Facebook: U.S. Made Half Of All Government Requests For User Data This Year | Talking Points Memo

WASHINGTON (AP) — Government agents in 74 countries demanded information on about 38,000 Facebook users in the first half of this year, with about half the orders coming from authorities in the United States, the company said Tuesday.The social-networking giant is the latest technology company to release figures on how often governments seek information about its customers. Microsoft and Google have done the same.


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