• Facebook shared some details Friday night about how frequently it receives government requests for information. • Between June and December 2012, US government entities filed 9,000 to 10,000 requests for Facebook-user data, the company said in a statement posted on its press website. In those requests, the government sought information on a total of between 18,000 and 19,000 user accounts. Facebook has more than 1.1 billion monthly active users, according to the statement. • The move to share this information comes in response to reports in the Guardian and Washington Post that Facebook, along with eight other major tech companies, has been providing the National Security Agency access to data on its servers through a program called "PRISM." (Disclosure: AOL, which owns The Huffington Post, is among those accused of participating in PRISM.) Posted: 06/14/2013 - 11:54 pm EDT Updated: 06/15/2013 - 12:02 am EDT Read more ▼
Posted on: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 09:50:52 +0000
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