UK seeks information from Facebook on 2,337 users
Type
E-journal
Date
28 Aug 2013
Jurisdiction
Egypt, Turkey, England, India
Taxonomy
World Wide Web, Data Protection, Privacy
Copyright
LexisNexis
Relevant company
Guardian
Are government requests for data from social media sites concerning?
IP & IT analysis: The UK government has made the third largest number of requests for Facebook user information in the world. Duncan Lamont, partner at Charles Russell, considers whether such requests for user data are just a drop in the ocean.
Original news
UK seeks information from Facebook on 2,337 users
Guardian, 28 August 2013: Facebook received nearly 2,000 requests for information from the British government in the first half of 2013, relating to 2,337 individual accounts, the social networking site has revealed. Facebook complied with 68% of the government's requests.
In light of the ongoing scrutiny of the mining of data by governments, what is the significance of this revelation?