NEW DELHI: Facebook says there was a steep rise in data requests from India’s government in the first half of this year as compared to the previous two years.
The company said in a report released Nov 16 that it received 16,580 data requests from the government in the January-June period as compared to 22,024 requests in all of 2017 and 13,613 in 2016.
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