Yahoo: 12,444 U.S. Data Requests

Reacting to the NSA surveillance affair, Yahoo, Facebook, Google and Twitter each published transparency reports, sharing the numbers of data requests they had from the U.S. government.

Yahoo leads the statistic shown below with 12,444 requests they received from the government. The micro-blogging platform Twitter has received comparatively less requests from the National Security Agency than its competitors, given their much smaller user-base.

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This chart shows the number of govermental data requests to selected tech companies.

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Annual number of user data requests issued by government agencies worldwide from 2013 to 2022, by company
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Number of user data requests issued to selected tech companies from 2013 to mid 2024, by country and region
Number of user data requests issued to selected tech companies that were fully or partially disclosed from 2013 to 2021, by country and region
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Global number of user data requests issued to X (formerly Twitter) from federal agencies and governments during 1st half 2024, by country
Number of user data requests issued to Google from federal agencies and governments in 1st half 2024, by country
Number of user data requests issued to Facebook by federal agencies and governments during 2nd half 2024, by country

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