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alp227

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11. Reuters story

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Sat Jun 15, 2013, 03:03 AM

Jun 2013

Facebook, Microsoft reveal surveillance request figures

Facebook and Microsoft have struck agreements with the US government to release limited information about the number of surveillance requests they receive, a modest victory for the companies as they struggle with the fallout from disclosures about a secret government data-collection program.

Facebook on Friday became the first to release aggregate numbers of requests, saying in a blog post it received between 9,000 and 10,000 US requests for user data in the second half of 2012, covering 18,000 to 19,000 of its users' accounts. Facebook has more than 1.1 billion users worldwide.

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Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security Requests [View all] Hissyspit Jun 2013 OP

CIA's 'Facebook' Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs Electric Monk Jun 2013 #1

So how would we know what they release is really all of them anyway? newthinking Jun 2013 #2

For 500 million users (about 250 million of them on Facebook daily) struggle4progress Jun 2013 #3

Was one of these requests, "Give us it all now and all the time and never tell anyone"? Cronus Protagonist Jun 2013 #4

This. tinrobot Jun 2013 #16

I was thinking of dumping faceplant, now I will. nt Javaman Jun 2013 #5

If true, then this hardly sounds like a grand conspiracy. BenzoDia Jun 2013 #6

This doesn't mean NSA access to Facebook itself is limited in any way PSPS Jun 2013 #7

+1 nt OnyxCollie Jun 2013 #10

One hundred Facebook accounts per day turned over to authorities, approximately. Coyotl Jun 2013 #8

Facebook did the right thing releasing what they could davidpdx Jun 2013 #9

What "conspiracy theories"? temmer Jun 2013 #14

I'm not saying I know conspiracy theories davidpdx Jun 2013 #15

Reuters story alp227 Jun 2013 #11

How in the world did authorities identify 19,000 accounts as being of interest? snot Jun 2013 #12

From that - most requests for Microsoft were probably 'national security' muriel_volestrangler Jun 2013 #13

Facebook is so public anyway treestar Jun 2013 #17