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"Yahoo! has become the latest tech firm to reveal the number of data requests it has received from the US authorities. The web pioneer was served with between 12,000 and 13,000 requests during a six-month period ending May 31, most of which were from law enforcement seeking help with criminal investigations.  &amp;quot;Democracy demands accountability,&amp;quot; said Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and general counsel Ron Bell in a joint statement.  &amp;quot;Recognising the important role that Yahoo! can play in ensuring accountability, we will issue later this summer our first global law enforcement transparency report, which will cover the first half of the year. We will refresh this report with current statistics twice a year.&amp;quot; Apple, Facebook and Microsoft have also published stats on government data requests since the Obama administration&amp;#039;s controversial PRISM surveillance programme was exposed. Yahoo! has denied participating in the data-gathering scheme, calling allegations to the contrary &amp;quot;categorically false.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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