Facebook today revealed that the Indian government had asked for access to information of 4,144 users of the social network in the first half of 2013. India sent 3,245 requests to Facebook during the period, making it the second largest country in terms of requests for information after the United States. Facebook complied with 50 percent of the requests, according to data released by the company in its first ever Global Governments Request Report.
“As we have made clear in recent weeks, we have stringent processes in place to handle all government data requests. We believe this process protects the data of the people who use our service, and requires governments to meet a very high legal bar with each individual request in order to receive any information about any of our users,” Colin Stretch, Facebook General Counsel explained in a statement. “We scrutinize each request for legal sufficiency under our terms and the strict letter of the law, and require a detailed description of the legal and factual bases for each request. We fight many of these requests, pushing back when we find legal deficiencies and narrowing the scope of overly broad or vague requests. When we are required to comply with a particular request, we frequently share only basic user information, such as name,” he added.
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