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Twitter Under-pressure From Governments To Release Users' Private Info by kmanning: 5:55pm On Aug 01, 2013 |
Twitter is under increasing pressure from governments around the world to release user's private information, with requests rising 40 percent in the first six months of the year, the microblogging company said Wednesday in its semi-annual transparency report. The United States made three-quarters of the 1,157 data requests during the six-month period, according to the San Francisco-based company's report. Governments usually want the emails or IP addresses tied to a Twitter account. In one well-known case, a French court ordered Twitter in February to turn over information about an anonymous account that posted anti-Semitic tweets. Twitter, which had initially resisted by arguing that the data was stored beyond French jurisdiction in its California servers, ultimately complied in June. Efforts to censor Twitter content have also risen sharply, the company said. "Over the last six months, we have gone from withholding content in two countries to withholding content (ranging from hate speech to defamation) in seven countries," said Twitter legal policy manager Jeremy Kessel. Twitter was censored the most in Brazil, where courts issued orders on nine occasions to remove a total of 39 defamatory tweets. The report did not include secret information requests within the United Sates authorized under the Patriot Act, a law enacted after the September 11 attacks. U.S. companies are prohibited from acknowledging the existence of data requests made under those statutes. GET MORE GIST HERE
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