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Facebook is seeing a huge surge in the amount of data being requested by governments.

The site has released its new information on government information requests, showing a huge rise in the amount of data that governments are trying to get hold of about Facebook’s users.

The number of posts that are being taken down because they are contravening local laws is also surging, at almost double the amount of posts that were being censored from last year.

Facebook said that it had received 35,051 requests from governments for access to account data. That was up 18 per cent, across all countries.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-data-requests-from-governments-surge-site-says-a6732011.html [independent.co.uk]

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