Requests for User Data Rise in Twitter’s Latest Transparency Report
Twitter said that it has seen an increase in requests from government agencies around the world for account information and content removal. Credit Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Top Stories This article and others like it are part of our new subscription. Learn More » Twitter on Thursday released its bi-annual transparency report , detailing the number of requests for information the company receives from government agencies around the world. Releasing transparency reports, a practice pioneered by Google four years ago, is now commonplace for many large technology companies; Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft regularly release their own similar versions. Twitter received 2,058 requests for user account information from a total of 54 different countries over the last six months, the company said, a 46 percent increase in requests from its previous report. As has been the case for years, the United States requested Twitter user information the most frequently, a
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