India made 2nd most data requests to FB in 1st half of 2016
After the US, the Indian government sent the second highest number of data requests to social networking giant Facebook in the first half of 2016. The Indian government agencies sent 6,324 requests for 8,290 users/accounts as compared to US' 23,854 requests, Facebook's Government Requests Report stated. Notably, Facebook received 5,561 data requests from India in the second half of 2015.