Twitter Says Government Information Requests Exploded 52% In Past Six Months

Behind Turkey in asking for content to be removed were Russian Federation, with a 63 percent success rate on 68 requests; South Korea, whose 40 requests all failed; and France, which had a 7 percent strike rate from 32 requests. The company may help to narrow requests that are overly broad.

The report states that users whose information has been requested are notified by Twitter.

The company said removal requests relate to matters such as defamatory statements or prohibited content. It rejected the nine requests made in the UK.

Twitter is getting more serious about its biannual transparency reports.

“This is the largest increase in requests and affected accounts between reporting periods since we began publishing the Transparency Report in 2012″, he said. The company claimed the substantial boom is the ” largest increase between reporting periods we have seen”, Jeremy Kessel, Twitter’s senior manager of global legal policy, said in a blog post on Tuesday.

Turkey was far and away the country that made the highest number of content removal requests, making 92 percent of the 442 requests Twitter received globally from courts, and 55 percent of all content takedown requests made by government bodies such as police forces.

The United States continues to make the majority of requests for account information, comprising 56 percent of all requests received, Twitter said, covering requests received between January 1 and June 30. In the second half of last year, the United States had made 1,622 information requests affecting 3,299 accounts.

It’s also worth noting that India’s requests increased 175 percent over the last period to 113 requests, 19 percent of which produced some information. Twitter responded with withholding 1 twitter account. On the other hand, requests for data removal and copyright notices rose by 26% and 11% respectively.

Twitter redesigned the location for his or her transparency reviews to incorporate a “mobile-friendly format” and a piece for looking studies by nation, as introduced within the report on August 11, 2015. For example, Gmail.com is 100 percent encrypted while Yahoo.co.jp is not encrypted at all. For instance, customers can now search the database and think about studies by nation.

According to the report, the PTA had made six requests to remove content from as many as 60 accounts about territorial conflicts involving the country in the past six months.