Facebook Releases First Transparency Report

Facebook released its first-ever transparency report on Tuesday, detailing the number of times governments around the world asked for information on its users and how many times the social networking company turned over the data requested

The "Global Requests Report" covers the first six months of 2013 until June 30 and reveals that 71 countries requested data on a total of 37,954 to 38,954 users

The total number is listed as a range because Facebook was allowed to release neither a specific number of requests nor a specific number of accounts requested by the United States government. Read more...