Monday, March 16, 2015

Netherlands increasingly demands information from Facebook – NU.nl

according to new figures from the social network.

In the second half of 2014 it was 76 requests. That there are nearly four times as many as in the second half of 2013. In addition, the number of requests for the third consecutive time. In the first half of 2013 Netherlands asked only 11 times information.



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The requests in the last six months of 2014 involved 84 accounts. Sometimes retrieved in a single request information about multiple accounts. For whatever that information is, Facebook does not disclose.

In the case of the Netherlands also received information effectively in the second half of 2014, nearly 65 percent of the cases. Sometimes judges Facebook that the request is legitimate and does not inform

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Source: Facebook © NU.nl



Total

The total number of requests from all governments worldwide increased in the second half of 2014. It was about 35 051 requests. In the second half of 2013 there were only 28,144 and in the first half of 2014 it was already at 34 946 requests.

Most of the requests come from the United States. The US government early in the last six months of last year more than 14,000 times information. Moreover, that was less than in the first six months of the year

By:. NU.nl

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