Government Requests for Facebook User Data Rose 7% in the Second Half of 2018

The U.S. had the most, although it was down 3% from the first six months of the year

Facebook received 110,634 government requests for user data in the second half of 2018, up 7% from 103,815 in the first half of 2018, according to its latest Transparency Report, which was released Thursday.

The social network said the uptick in the second half of last year was normal compared with previous reporting periods.

The most requests came from the U.S., followed by India, the U.K., Germany and France.

Vice president and deputy general counsel Chris Sonderby said in a Newsroom post that requests from the U.S.

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