The U.S. leads the world in government requests for Facebook user data

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American authorities apparently love Facebook's user data.

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The most recent update to the Facebook Government Requests Report, charted here for us by Statista, showed that U.S. authorities asked Facebook for user data 17,577 times. That's a record since Facebook started releasing this information - the previous record, set in the first half of 2014, was only 15,433 requests. It's also more than 3x the number of requests that authorities in India, the second-place country, made.

Most of these requests were from search warrants (9,737) and court subpoenas (5,375). Almost 80% of these requests resulted in Facebook returning at least some data for the authorities to use.

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