Twitter reveals British data requests more than doubled in last six months
by Press Association from Technology | The Guardian on (#H6M7)
Police and government agencies asked for user information 299 times from January to the end of June, up from 116 in second half of 2014
The number of requests for Twitter user data made by British authorities has more than doubled in the last six months, , figures reveal.
Police and government agencies asked for information about users 299 times from 1 January to 30 June. This was up from 116 in the previous six months and more than the total for the whole of the previous two years.
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