Facebook, increase the governmental requests – Want …

Facebook has released his latest transparency report highlighting the number of government requests to have access to user data in the first part of 2016. According to the report, the government requests to have access to the data of the account increased by 27% compared to the last half of 2015. The number of requests has grown, in the details, from 46.710 to 59.229. Most of these requests, about 56% would arrive from the United States of America, and they would count the non-disclosure clause.

In other words, the persons concerned could not be notified by Facebook requests access to their data. The social network has, also, shows the number of requests of the content subject to the restriction for having violated any local law. the Facebook shows how these specific requests have decreased by 83%, and specifically from 55.827 to 9.663. However, these data do not indicate a general decline in these types of requests on the part of governments. In fact, in the last report, these data were particularly high due to the strong increase of requests due to the sad events of Paris in November 2015.

Also, for the first time Facebook has made to know how many times governments have asked to keep the details of the account waiting processes. This means, that in some countries, the forces of law and order will turn to social networks to have a "photograph" of the information of an account. Facebook does, however, know that will satisfy the questions of preservation of the data, but that is not will provide them if not following a formal and regular legal request. The company said it had received 38,675 requests storage of the data for 67,129 account.

Facebook has expanded its reporting of emergency requests for countries outside of the United States. These are requests for user data in which the application of the law reveals an imminent risk of serious injury or death. Facebook has received 3.016 emergency requests for 4.192 account.

Also, thanks to the reform on the Freedom Act american, Facebook has been able to offer information on the National Security Letters (NSL), that is, on the subpoena, administrative issued directly by the FBI, then without the approval of a judge. The changes have enabled Facebook to exercise at its discretion the opportunity to reveal it had received an NSL, when, and how it has responded, as well as the account information you requested.

Facebook, finally, reiterated that having complied with all legal requirements, but will fight to prevent governments from having direct access to the information of the users.