Instant Alert: The U.S. leads the world in government requests for Facebook user data

MANAGE SUBSCRIPTIONS   |   UNSUBSCRIBE   |   VIEW ONLINE   The U.S. leads the world in government requests for Facebook user data by Matt Rosoff on Nov 12, 2015, 1:28 PM American authorities apparently love Facebook's user data. The most recent update to the Facebook Government Requests Report, charted here for us by Statista, showed that U.S. authorities asked Facebook for user data 17,577 times. That's a record since Facebook started releasing this information — the previous record, set in the first half of 2014, was only 15,433 requests. It's also more than 3x the number of requests that authorities in India, the second-place country, made. Most of these requests were from search warrants (9,737) and court subpoenas (5,375). Almost 80% of these requests resulted in Facebook returning at least some data for the authorities to use.   SEE ALSO: If you think we're in a tech bubble, look at this chart of Internet company stocks   Share the latest business news with your network: Email sent to:   |   Manage your email preferences   |   Unsubscribe Terms of Service   |   Privacy Policy Business Insider. 150 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011