Posted on 12/28/2016 10:59:41 AM PST by Lorianne
The end of the year is approaching, and data concerning government abuses of power has begun pouring in.
According to Facebook’s Global Government Requests Report, government’s requests for Facebook account data rose 27 percent in the first half of 2016.
Facebook’s official announcement explained that requests for user data went from 46,710 in the last half of 2015 to 59,229 in the first half of 2016. At least 56 percent of these requests, Facebook added, “contained a non-disclosure order that prohibited us from notifying the user.”
Law enforcement agencies from across the globe, Facebook continued, often send restriction requests demanding Facebook remove content from its forums. Fortunately, these requests dropped substantially this year, from 55,827 in the last half of 2015 to 9,663 in 2016 — an 87 percent drop. Most of the 2015 requests revolved around “French content restrictions of a single image from the November 13, 2015 terrorist attacks.”
Additionally, Facebook used its report to disclose for the first time what the company does when law enforcement agencies request “snapshots” of a user account that might be relevant to law enforcement for undisclosed reasons.
These “preservation requests,” as they are known, are requests to “preserve data pending receipt of formal legal process.” They are often processed by the social media website as snapshots, which are preserved temporarily. According to Facebook, the company does not “disclose any of the preserved records unless and until we receive formal and valid legal process.” In the first half of 2016, Facebook received 38,675 preservation requests regarding 67,129 accounts, a staggering number of requests.
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The first time I heard about Facebook, I commented as follows: I Facebook is a government-monitored, if not government-sponsored, personal data mining operation.
I don’t have any facebook data.
>>Dammit! Now they’ll see all my crazy rants and........ Oh, I forgot. No Facebook account. Guess they’ll have to keep track of me on FRee republic<<
Same here. I have one to look at other people (family) but have never posted or “liked” or anything else. Also I use an unusual spelling of my name (which is quite common) so most won’t figure out it is me.
I continue to think people who post on FB are freaking nuts.
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(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
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Yes it is. Hitler and Stalin never had it so easy.
Of course the brightest criminals won’t play, that just leaves the dumbass part of society to get locked up.
FR is monitored heavily. I get a visit myself and I don’t post anything.
I quit Facebook when they were gathering all the facial recognition data from FB idiots gladly tagging their and other people’s names to photos. Anyone on FB invites greedy spies into their computers and their lives. Stupid is as stupid does.
Yep, same here.
I’m some sort of digital social outcast, to which I say hey, cool.
Check out the dude in Wyoming that got caught.
He was good but his DNA matched in Colorado.
Ate half a sandwich.
Oh my.
Ate half a sandwich.
Oh my.
I'd make a good criminal, I always clean my plate. I think that's why the chinese aren't starving anymore.
very clever.
You got me laughing.
Damn Chinese, it’s to much. :^)
A relative said I was a “dumb p.o.s.” for saying the government monitored FB
I’d like to see the gubmint spy on my Facebook account. Let ‘em try. It would be like banging their heads into a bloody pulp against a brick wall.
I wouldn’t have anything to do with Facebook if you paid me.
I really don’t give a hoot. If they want to find out I’m a deplorable all they have to do is ask anyone in my family or any acquaintance or me.
What Facebook, Kemosabe?
Reach out to that relative with the four most beautiful words in the English language: I told you so.
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