SG GOVT MADE DATA REQUEST FOR FACEBOOK USERS
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Singapore gov’t made data requests for 117 Facebook user accounts from Jan-June 2013
By Nurul Azliah Aripin | Yahoo! Newsroom – Wed, Aug 28, 2013-
Press Association Images - File photo dated 19/10/12 of a general view of the Facebook home page on a laptop screen as many babies are making their photographic debut on social media within an hour of their
Singapore made data requests for 117 Singapore-based Facebook accounts from the start of this year until June, according to a report released by the social networking site.
In a report published on its website on Wednesday entitled, “Global Government Requests Report”, on Wednesday, it said Singapore was among 73 other countries who made similar requests for more data about user accounts.
In total, the social networking giant said it had received more than 25,000 requests from governments around the world for the first six months of the year. US had requested for data on the most number of users (about 21,000), followed by Italy (2,306) and the UK (2,337), the report said.
It said authorities from such countries mainly asked for information to be used in investigations.
In Singapore’s case, it released some user data to 70 per cent of the requests made.
"We scrutinise each request for legal sufficiency under our terms and the strict letter of the law, and require a detailed description of the legal and factual basis for each request.
"We fight many of these requests, pushing back when we find legal deficiencies and narrowing the scope of overly broad or vague requests," said Facebook's General Counsel Colin Stretch.
“The vast majority of these requests relate to criminal cases, such as robberies or kidnappings. In many of these cases, these governments,” it said.
Governments usually seek for “basic subscriber information” such as name, length of service and IP address logs or “actual account content”, it added.
The social networking site said it issued the report in the interest of transparency and hoped governments would do the same.
“Government transparency and public safety are not mutually exclusive ideals. Each can exist simultaneously in free and open societies, and they help make us stronger. We strongly encourage all governments to provide greater transparency about their efforts aimed at keeping the public safe, and we will continue to be aggressive advocates for greater disclosure,” it said.
More details can be found here https://www.facebook.com/safety/groups/law/guidelines/. -
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Fb usually got pictures only/.
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