The Portuguese Government requested the largest social network in the world, data of 365 users, according to a biannual report of transparency of the company.
The largest number of applications came from July and December last year, 305 in all. Despite this number of applications, only about 34 percent had acceptance by the social network, and the remaining applications were denied, advances Facebook itself.
The transparency report serves above all to clarify users about the number of requests made by governing bodies. In its information page, the account of this act and clarifies Facebook users: “. We are publishing this information because we want people to understand the nature of these reports and the strict rules and processes that we have to do”
The social network also reports that these data are due mainly to people with criminal cases in progress.
Still, according to a global report requests from governments, only in the last six months of last year were made 35,000 applications worldwide on users.
There are several companies that have governments ask information about users, such as Microsoft or Google. Twitter, another major social network, received only a request for information, request that was denied by the network.
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