India ranks second in government requests for Facebook user data

India came in a second after the United States (US) in terms of nations asking Facebook to divulge information related to user accounts. Such requests have increased by more than 9 per cent to 22,684 in the first half of 2019, according to a report by the social networking giant.

In January-June 2019, India made 22,684 requests for user data of 33,324 users/accounts from the social media company.

This was only behind the US that asked the social media giant for 50,714 user data requests of 82,461 users/accounts in the period.