Indian government made most requests for user data after US in H2 2022: Meta

The Indian authorities submitted 63,852 requests for person information to social media large Meta within the second half of 2022 (from July to December), second solely to the US which submitted a slightly larger variety of requests.

Guy Rosen, Chief Information Security Officer at Meta stated in a weblog put up late on Wednesday night time that through the second half of 2022, international authorities requests for person information elevated 0.8% from 237,414 to 239,388.

“The US continues to submit the largest number of requests of that total volume, followed by India, Germany, Brazil, France and the UK,” he stated. As per its newest transparency report, Meta stated the US submitted 64,148 whole requests.

Government requests for person information embrace each routine authorized course of and emergency disclosure requests. For each request sorts, Meta stated it studies the variety of requests acquired, the variety of customers/accounts requested, and the proportion of requests the place it produced some information.

Interestingly, within the Indian context, the variety of requests within the second half of 2022 is larger than the primary half of the 12 months when the federal government had made 55,497 requests to Meta for person information. The firm stated that 58,681 had been authorized course of requests and 5,171 had been emergency disclosure requests. Meta added that 68.26% of requests had been the place some information was produced.

Further, as many as 106,856 customers/accounts had been requested. This is the best quantity because the firm began reporting these numbers. For context, as per the corporate’s web site, 6,268 customers/accounts had been requested between January to June, 2015.

Then there are preservation requests. Meta stated it accepts authorities requests to protect account data pending receipt of formal authorized course of.”When we receive a preservation request, we will preserve a temporary snapshot of the relevant account information but will not disclose any of the preserved records unless and until we receive formal and valid legal process,” the corporate stated on its web site.

In India, Meta stated that through the second half of 2022, it acquired 8.17k requests and 13.5k customers/accounts requested for preservation.

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