India with 40,300 requests was second to the US in terms of asking Facebook to provide user data in the second half of 2020, and the social network restricted access in India to 878 items in response to directions from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
with 40,300 requests was second to the in terms of asking to provide in the second half of 2020, and the social network restricted access in India to 878 items in response to directions from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). The restricted access was due to violating Section 69A of the Information Technology Act,2000, including against security of the state and public order. «Of these,10 were restricted temporarily. We also restricted access to 54 items in compliance with court orders,» Facebook said on Wednesday in its latest Transparency Report for the July-December period in 2020. Although Facebook did not reveal the nature of the requests from the, the second half of 2020 saw massive farmers’ protests across the country against the three farm laws passed by the Parliament in September 2020.
