{"id":76310,"date":"2014-11-06T17:30:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=76310"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:22:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:22:29","slug":"worldwide-governments-made-24-more-requests-for-user-data-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/worldwide-governments-made-24-more-requests-for-user-data-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Worldwide governments made 24% more requests for user data in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook released its third <strong>Global Governance<\/strong> report this week, detailing how the social network has responded to data requests about users from governments around the world. The reports began as a response to concern about the government snooping uncovered by Edward Snowden, aiming to rebuild trust with users who feared governments were able to spy on their social networks.<\/p>\n<p>Far from decreasing, governmental requests for data have actually <strong>grown by 24%<\/strong> worldwide in 2014, while the amount of content shared on Facebook that was restricted grew by 19%.<\/p>\n<p>This report has a neat world map, split into regions, so you can explore the data around the world &#8211; it&#8217;s also available to download as a .CSV you can open in Excel. What information you get for each country varies, presumably relating somewhat to local laws. This third report relates to January &#8211; June 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Other companies also publish this kind of report, like Yahoo!, Microsoft and Twitter, although each one is slightly different. There isn&#8217;t yet a standard way of presenting this data.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2014\/11\/global-government-requests-report-3\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Related Stories:<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Are these the real minimum PC requirements for Assassin's Creed: Unity?\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/are-these-the-real-minimum-pc-requirements-for-assassins-creed-unity\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Are these the real minimum PC requirements for Assassin&#8217;s Creed: Unity?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"More Assassin's Creed Chronicles chapters coming after 'China'\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/more-assassins-creed-chronicles-chapters-coming-after-china\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More Assassin&#8217;s Creed Chronicles chapters coming after &#8216;China&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Assassin's Creed Rogue will come to PC early 2015\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/assassins-creed-rogue-will-come-to-pc-early-2015\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed Rogue will come to PC early 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Follow Jonathan on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathanriggall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@jonathanriggall<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook released its third Global Governance report this week, detailing how the social network has responded to data requests about users from governments around the world. The reports began as a response to concern about the government snooping uncovered by Edward Snowden, aiming to rebuild trust with users who feared governments were able to spy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/worldwide-governments-made-24-more-requests-for-user-data-in-2014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Worldwide governments made 24% more requests for user data in 2014&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-76310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329875,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76310\/revisions\/329875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76310"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=76310"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=76310"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=76310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}