Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) Governments Looking at More People

Government requests for Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) account data increased to 41,214, with a bulk of those requests coming from U.S law enforcement agencies.

Content restricted for violating local law more than doubled to 20,568 pieces during the same period, compared with the second half of 2014, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) said in a blog post on Wednesday.

The technology industry has pushed for greater transparency on government data requests, seeking to shake off concerns about their involvement in vast, surreptitious surveillance programs revealed by former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden.

Facebook, Microsoft Corp, Yahoo Inc and Alphabet Inc, formerly Google, last year began publishing details about the number of government requests for data they receive.

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