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Facebook may have somewhat lost users’ trust by agreeing to share their data with the world’s governments, but at least they’re being open about it. The first-of-its-kind Global Government Requests Report released by the company yesterday details these requests for information, and Singapore is on it (see excerpt from the original report below).
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Based on the report, the Singapore government has requested that Facebook reveal data from 117 user accounts, 70% of which was fulfilled. This is the highest number of requests Facebook has received from a single country in Southeast Asia, beating Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. Indonesia is not on the list.
Information provided in the report includes the number of requests received from each of the countries specified (except for the United States, for whom a range was given) and the number of user accounts involved.
According to the Facebook general counsel Colin Stretch, the company will be regularly churning out such reports, which in future may provide even more information on the requests received by the law enforcement authorities.
