Twitter sees surge in government requests for account information<article>
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Twitter has seen an increase in government demands for account information in the first half of this year, with the U.S. followed by Japan topping the list for such requests.</p><p>
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the largest ever seen between reporting periods by Twitter, wrote Jeremy Kessel, Twitter’s senior manager for global legal policy, in a blog post Tuesday.</p><p>
The Transparency Report from the company indicated that government requests for account information in the first half were 52 percent more and affected 78 percent more account holders than in the second half of last year.</p><p>
The scope of the report has been expanded to include information on notices of alleged trademark violations and a section where users can check how different email providers handle the privacy and encryption of email messages from Twitter.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2970132/software-social/twitter-sees-surge-in-government-requests-for-account-information.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Twitter sees surge in government requests for account information
