Facebook says restricted 878 items in India from July-Dec 2020 on govt request

New Delhi: Facebook Inc. received 37,865 legal process requests on data from the Indian government between July and December 2020, according to its latest transparency report released on Thursday. It also received requests for data from the government on 62,754 user accounts and there were about 2435 emergency disclosure requests. Data was produced in about 52% of the requests, Facebook said.

The company said it restricted 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 security of the state and public order. Of these, 10 were restricted temporarily.