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Facebook has recorded 16,580 data requests from the Indian govt in the first 6 months of 2018 (from Jan to June)- a steep rise compared to a total of 22,024 requests in the year of 2017 and 13,613 in 2016.

Facebook has provided data in 53 percent of the cases, although the social networking giant did not reveal which kind of data. It is a conjecture that the data request is  usually related to law enforcement.

The company said,”Each and every request we receive is carefully reviewed for legal sufficiency and we may reject or require greater specificity on requests that appear overly broad or vague.”

Facebook also recorded a massive increase in the total number of Indian government requests for 2017–a rise of nearly 62 percent compared to the global average of 30 percent.

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