Twitter is from governments around the world, the release of the user's private information, up 40%, as requested in the first six months of this year, increasing pressure, microblogging company said on Wednesday, in its semi-annual transparency report.
U.S. three-quarters of 1,157 data requests, the six-month period, according to the San Francisco-based company reported. (Report: transparency.twitter.com /)
Governments usually tied to a Twitter account, email address or IP address.
In one famous case, the French court ordered in February emancipated anonymous Twitter account information, published anti-Semitic tweet. Twitter, initially controversial boycott of French outside the jurisdiction of the California data is stored in its servers, culminating in June followed.
Efforts to review the Twitter content also increased significantly, the company said.
Twitter's legal policy manager Jeremy Kessel said: "In the past six months, we have experienced in the two countries withholding content from withholding content (from hate speech defamation) in seven countries.
Twitter, Brazil's most censored, the court ordered nine times out of 39 libel tweet.
The report did not include confidential information at the request of U.S. troops Sept. 11 terrorist attacks enacted a law, according to the "Patriot Act" authorization. Prohibits U.S. companies admitted under these regulations existing data requests.
After a series of leaks in June before the security contractor Edward Snowden, who claimed that, Facebook's companies, including Google's major service providers, has been in Silicon Valley, a particularly contentious issue, such as a Twitter released transparency report every six months to pass user data Microsoft systems to the U.S. National Security Agency's huge troves.
Company, they denied the allegations Snowdon range, has asked the U.S. government to allow them to receive national security to disclose the exact amount required to publicly argue that they cooperate with the government has been relatively limited. The companies, including Twitter, still in progress, but including Microsoft and Facebook 6 released last month some of the approximate number of how many users are subject to the U.S. intelligence data dragnet cast negotiations between the companies.
In Japan, another large group of Twitter users in the first half of this year, authorities made 87 requests, while the British agencies 26. Most of the requested court summons in the form of micro-Bo said.
 



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