Transparency report

Apple Receives Record Number of US Government National Security Requests for Data

The U.S. technology giant said it received between 13,250 and 13,499 requests affecting between 9,000 and 9,249 accounts, according to its transparency report. Apple is not allowed to disclose the specific numbers of requests received so has to do so in a range.

Russia has Sent Google More Requests to Remove Information than all other Countries Combined

Last year the Russian authorities have made more inquiries to Google to remove "illegal" information on the net than all other countries in the world put together. This is the regular Transparency Report published by the technology giant every year, quoted by the BBC.

Turkey leads the world in twitter censorship

Twitter issues a transparency report every six months to record the amount of government requests it receives during that period, and how the company responds to them. For the first six months of 2015 Turkey leads the rest of the world with the most requests to twitter for censorship. Over 70 per cent of government takedowns came from Turkish authorities in 2015.

Turkey listed as second in government requests for data from Facebook

Turkey is second in the world in terms of the amount of content restricted on Facebook due to government requests, following India, according to the social media site's Global Government Requests Report, which includes information about content removal.

A slight increase in government requests for account data in the second half of 2014 was recorded, the report also said.

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