Facebook user data requests from Indian government increased in 2021: Meta

New Delhi: India with 45,275 requests was as soon as once more second to the US by way of asking Meta (previously Fb) to offer consumer information within the first half of 2021, and social community restricted entry in India to 442 objects in response to instructions from the Ministry of Electronics and Data Know-how (MeitY).

The restricted entry was as a result of violating Part 69A of the Data Know-how Act, 2000, together with content material towards safety of the state and public order.

“We additionally restricted entry to 22 objects in response to reviews obtained from the Elections Fee of India. Moreover, we restricted entry to 65 objects in response to different legitimate courtroom orders and to 6 objects in response to personal reviews of defamation,” Meta stated in an announcement late on Tuesday.

From January-June 2021, Fb obtained a complete of 45,275 requests (authorized/emergency) from the Indian authorities. Within the earlier July-December 2020 interval, the full requests from the Indian authorities had been 40,300.

The Indian authorities additionally requested Fb to offer information of 68,485 customers, of which 51 per cent requests had been met with, knowledgeable Meta.

The corporate, nevertheless, didn’t reveal the character of the requests from the Indian authorities.

Within the July-December 2020 interval, the social community had restricted entry in India to 878 objects in response to instructions from MeitY.

Meta introduced earlier this month that the social community eliminated over 30 million items of content material in September on Fb and Instagram in India.

The social community acted upon 26.9 million items of content material throughout 10 insurance policies for Fb and over 3.2 million items of content material throughout 9 insurance policies for Instagram in compliance with the Data Know-how (Middleman Tips and Digital Media Ethics Code) Guidelines, 2021, the corporate stated in its month-to-month compliance report.

Globally, through the first six months of 2021, authorities requests for consumer information elevated 10.5 per cent from 1,91,013 to 2,11,055.

Of the full quantity, the US continues to submit the biggest variety of requests, adopted by India, Germany, France, Brazil and the UK.

“Within the US, we obtained 63,657 requests, which was four per cent greater than the full we obtained within the second half of 2020,” the corporate stated.

Throughout the interval, the quantity of content material restrictions based mostly on native regulation elevated globally 11 per cent from 42,606 in H2 2020 to 47,365 in H1 2021, pushed primarily by will increase in requests from Mexico, Argentina, Germany, Italy, Taiwan and Pakistan.

“Within the first half of 2021, we recognized 62 disruptions of Meta applied sciences in 17 nations, in comparison with 91 disruptions in 18 nations within the second half of 2020,” stated the corporate.

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