Government requests for your Facebook data increased by about 24 percent in the first six months of the year, the social network revealed today.
Governments around the globe made 34,946 requests for data, Facebook said in its latest transparency report, which was up 24 percent from the second half of 2013.
Facebook was also forced to restrict access to about 19 percent more content than it had before thanks to local laws.
The social network breaks out those data requests by country, and the U.S. was responsible for 15,433 of them - covering 23,667 users and/or accounts. Data was turned over in about 80 percent of cases.
Most of those requests were search warrants (7,676) and subpoenas (6,088) - of which 84 percent and 80 percent were granted, respectively.
"As we've said before, we scrutinize every government request we receive for legal sufficiency under our terms and the strict letter of the law, and push back hard when we find deficiencies or are served with overly broad requests," Facebook said today.
When it comes to the FBI's National Security Letters, Facebook reports the number of requests in bands of 999, as required by the feds. In the first six months of 2014, therefore, it received between 0 and 999 NSL requests regarding 0 to 999 accounts.
Facebook is among those tech firms that have agreed to wait six months before reporting Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requests. It, along with companies like Google and Microsoft, has requested permission to report more specific data about these requests, to no avail. Rival Twitter took it one step further and sued the Department of Justice in October; find out more in the video below.