Social media big Facebook stated it has acquired 40,300 requests from the Indian authorities for consumer knowledge within the second half of 2020. This was 13.3 p.c greater from the January-June 2020 interval when India had made 35,560 whole requests, in line with the Facebookâs newest Transparency Report. The US-based firm restricted entry to 878 gadgets in India in the course of the second half of 2020 in response to instructions from the IT Ministry for violating Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, together with content material in opposition to the safety of the state and public order.
According to the report, India made 40,300 whole requests within the July-December 2020 interval, of which 37,865 have been authorized course of requests and a pair of,435 have been emergency disclosure requests. The variety of whole requests made by India ranked second to the US, which had made 61,262 requests in the course of the July-December 2020 interval. Globally, authorities requests for consumer knowledge elevated by about 10 per cent to 191,013 within the second half of 2020 from 173,592 within the first half of 2020. Information associated to 62,754 customers/accounts have been requested in India, and a few knowledge was produced for 52 per cent of the requests.
âFacebook 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,â the report stated. Facebook stated that in the course of the July – December 2020 interval, it had ârestricted access in India to 878 items in response to directions from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology for violating Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, including content against the security of the state and public orderâ.
Of these, 10 have been restricted briefly, it added. âWe also restricted access to 54 items in compliance with court orders. In response to an order from Justice Alexandre de Moraes of Brazilâs Supreme Court related to 12 profiles and Pages of supporters of Brazilian President Bolsonaro, we restricted access globally to this content, including in India,â it added.
Facebook famous that whereas it respects the regulation in international locations the place it operates, it âstronglyâ opposes extraterritorial authorized calls for such because the one leading to these restrictions. The social media big additionally launched its Community Standards Enforcement Report for the primary quarter of 2021.
As per the Community Standards Enforcement Report, content material actioned on grownup nudity and sexual exercise elevated to 31.8 million in first quarter of 2021 from 28.1 million items of content material within the previous quarter. The report discovered that prevalence of hate speech content material was between 0.05 per cent and 0.06 per cent of views within the first quarter of 2021, which marks a lower from the fourth quarter of 2020.
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