Facebook Shares Numbers on Government Data Requests in Response to PRISM Reports
Facebook shared some details Friday night about how frequently it receives government requests for information.
Between June and December 2012, US government entities filed 9,000 to 10,000 requests for Facebook-user data, the company said in a statement posted on its press website. In those requests, the government sought information on a total of between 18,000 and 19,000 user accounts. Facebook has more than 1.1 billion monthly active users, according to the statement.
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