Indian government made most requests for user data after US in H2 2022: Meta

The Indian government submitted 63,852 requests for user data to social media giant Meta in the second half of 2022 (from July to December), second only to the US which submitted a marginally higher number of requests.

Guy Rosen, Chief Information Security Officer at Meta said in a blog post late on Wednesday night that during the second half of 2022, global government requests for user data increased 0.8% from 237,414 to 239,388.

“The US continues to submit the largest number of requests of that total volume, followed by India, Germany, Brazil, France and the UK,” he said. As per its latest transparency report, Meta said the US submitted 64,148 total requests.