The number of requests received by Facebook from the Authorities to deliver user data seems to have increased in the first half of 2016, according to the company's data. Below we present Facebook's 2016 Facebook privacy requests, according to the transparency report you can see in full from the link at the end of the publication.
Facebook revealed all the National Security Letters (National Security Letters or NSLs) received in the first half of 2016 to hand over the personal information of certain users to governments and various services law enforcement.
The information requested in the NSL includes the name, address and records of the electronic communications and transactions relating to that person. However, Facebook was not required to provide the content of the person's communications.
All government requests for account data for the largest social network increased by 27% worldwide compared to the second half of 2015. From 46.710 applications, the number has risen to 59.229 requests.
The majority of applications (more than 40 per cent) came from US law enforcement authorities. India followed by 10,8 percent, and the United Kingdom came third with 9,2%.
Its governments Franceand Germany are also ranked very high since their percentage represents 6,4 percent and 6,2 percent of the total respectively.
Countries like China and Russia were absent from the list as Facebook has been banned.
Η Greece now according to the transparency report, it requested data on 398 Facebook users and 84 of those requests were classified as urgent. Of the 398 requests Facebook received, it served 326.
