Government of India received 55497 requests for consumer data: Meta
In terms of requesting user data from Meta in the first half of this year, India is only second to the United States.
In the first half of the year, India made 55,497 requests to Meta for access to user data. Following us, India is once again in second place, and according to the IT Ministry’s directives, social network India ranks 597 in the country. A reporting column that restricts item access.
India made 50,382 requests to Meta for user data in the second half of 2021. 597 items were restricted, according to Meta, for violating Section 69a of the Information Technology Act of 2000. According to Meta, access to 597 items was restricted for violating Section 69A of the Information Technology Act of 2000, which included content threatening state security and public order.
Violation of Rule 16 of the Information Technology Intermediary Guidelines and the Digital Video Code of Ethics 2021 by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Meta has also limited 6 items in response to the Ministry’s directives.
Elections such as the Indian Penal Code, the Representation of the People Act, petition disclosure, and the promotion of sectarian violence. In India, we limited our observations to 23 complaints reported by the India Elections Association. According to Meta’s most recent transparency report.
19 of these were only temporarily prohibited in the country (during the stated blackout period).
According to the company, they restricted access to 71 articles due to various court orders, 13 items for intellectual property infringement, and two items in response to private reports of defamation.
Meta removed more than 30.7 million inappropriate pieces of content from Facebook across 13 policies and more than 3 million such items from Instagram across 12 policies in India in September, as the Center announced changes to the New IT Rules, 2021 to impose stricter standards on social media platforms.
According to Meta, the number of requests for user data from governments around the world increased by 10.5% in the first half of 2022, from 214,777 to 237,414.
The United States continues to submit the most requests in relation to total volume, followed by India, Germany, Brazil, France, and the United Kingdom.
The number of requests from the United States was 69,363, which was 15.6% higher than the total number of requests from the second half of 2021, according to Meta.
The volume of content restrictions based on local laws increased by 75% in a reporting year, from 50,959 in the second half of 2021. In the first half of 2022, it increased to 89,368.
In the first half of 2022, we detected 64 disruptions to Facebook services in 15 countries, and 12 countries in the second half of 2021. According to Meta, there were 38 outages.