Pinterest Government, Law Enforcement Requests Pale Versus Facebook
Government entities and law-enforcement agencies apparently don’t view Pinterest as a social network frequented by terrorists or other unsavory types.
Government entities and law-enforcement agencies apparently don’t view Pinterest as a social network frequented by terrorists or other unsavory types.
Pinterest released its Transparency Report for the first half of 2016, and the numbers pale in comparison with those found in Facebook’s Global Government Requests Report.
According to Pinterest’s Transparency Report, the social network fielded 24 total U.S. government requests in the first half of 2016—13 subpoenas, two court orders and nine warrants—notifying four account holders of this activity.
By way of comparison, Facebook’s Global Government Requests Report for the second half of 2015 cited 19,235 U.S.
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