“In response to an order from Justice Alexandre de Moraes of Brazil’s Supreme Court related to 12 profiles and Pages of supporters of Brazilian President Bolsonaro, we restricted access globally to this content, including in India,” face book explained.

In its most recent transparency file, the research firm said it has received 40,300 requests against the Indian government for user statistics at the next half 2020. This is 13.3percent higher from the January-June 20 20 period when India had left 35,560 absolute purchases.

In accordance with this accounts, outside of 40,300 absolute requests generated at the July-December 20 20 period, 37,865 were valid process asks and 2,435 were emergency disclosure asks.

How many total purchases made by India ranked 2nd to the usa, that had generated 61,262 requests throughout the July-December 20 20 period.

Globally, government asks for user data rose by roughly 10 percent to 1,91,013 at the next half 2020 from 1,73,592 at the first 1 / 2 2020.

Information linked to 62,754 users/accounts were asked in India, and also a few data was produced for 52 percent of their requests.

“Facebook responds to government requests for data in accordance with applicable law and our terms of service. 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,” face book explained.