68% rise in data requests from Indian govt in H1 2018: FB
Facebook has revealed that it received 16,580 data requests from the Indian government during the first six months of 2018, around 68% higher than the year-ago period. According to Facebook's Transparency report, the platform offered "some data" in 53% of the cases. The total data requests from Indian government for January-June of 2017 stood at 9,853, as per the report.