This is in sharp contrast to the government of Singapore, which made a total of 198 requests for data from 213 users or accounts.
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Over the last two years, we’ve regularly published information about the nature and extent of the requests we receive.
The January to June numbers for Singapore was the highest recorded figures since 2013.
According to the social media company’s Government Requests Report, global queries for account data has ramped up in the first half of 2015 compared to the same period past year, from 34,946 requests to 41,214.
The company did not elaborate on what is considered too broad, only providing details on whether the information requested from Facebook was content-related or not (such as subscriber name).
Governments have increasingly relied on Facebook’s vast troves of user data to help investigate criminal cases, which are responsible for most of the requests, Facebook said.
The most recent reporting period is the first half of 2015. If a request appears to be deficient or overly broad, we push back hard and will fight in court, if necessary.
Facebook, which has more than 30 million users in the United Kingdom complied with 78 per cent of requests, up from 72 per cent a year ago.
The majority of government requests came from the US, with more than 17,577 coming from law enforcement, involving more than 26,500 accounts.
Globally the company is seeing a staggering increase in content restriction.
Facebook’s latest Government Requests Report, released on Wednesday evening, revealed a significant rise in requests for information across the world.
Interestingly the U.S.is the only country in the report where the types of requests are broken down by type. For the most content taken down for violating local laws, India and Turkey were the top countries.
The amount of content restricted for violating local law increased by 112 per cent over the second half of 2014, to 20,568 pieces of content, up from 9,707.
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In a statement on their website, Chris Sonderby, Facebook Deputy General Counsel said: “As we have emphasised before, Facebook does not provide any government with “back doors” or direct access to people’s data”.
