Governments and Facebook

Government requests for data from  Facebook

Which governments request information the most from Facebook?  First report from Facebook covers 6 months from January-June 2013.

Governments make requests to Facebook and many other companies seeking account information in official investigations. The vast majority of these requests relate to criminal cases, such as robberies or kidnappings.  In many of these cases, these government requests seek basic subscriber information, such as name and length of service.  Other requests may also seek IP address logs or actual account content.  This report gives statistics on number of requests, number of accounts they relate to and the percentage of data supplied.

Google also produces a regular transparency report on take down request from government.