Twitterjust releasedits later transparency report detailing government requests for entropy requests , depicted object removal postulation and right of first publication squelcher . Not just one or two but all three class are up in the first half of this year .
take the lion ’s part of the requests arecopyright takedowns . Between January 1 and June 30 , copyright put-down on Twitter leap out 76 percent from the six months previous to 5,753 . chirrup does n’t provide much detail about the requests , but they would include copyrighted exposure , Sung dynasty and videos upload to the site and affect 22,399 user accounts . The content was removed for violating the Digital Millenium Copyright Act , though Twitter says it did n’t honor a large numeral of illegitimate claims .
contentedness removal requestsmake up a much smaller slice of the report , though the increase in requests is similarly sharp . In the first six months of 2013 , the number of requests jumped from 42 to 60 , which amount to a ten - fold increase since Twitter started publishing its transparency write up a yr ago . These requests come from governments around the world , namely Brazil , Turkey and the United States , all of whom made multiple requests . It also include the information implicate in Twitter ’s new Country Withheld Content dick which lets the microblogging inspection and repair block finical content in countries where it may be illegal .
Perhaps most interesting to true transparency nuts , though , are the figure from Twitter’sinformation requests , which go up slimly from 1,009 in the 2nd half of 2012 to 1,157 in the most recent period . Without a doubtfulness , the United States made up the social lion ’s share of these requests with a total of 907 user info requests made , 67 percentage of which were satisfy by Twitter . These requests cut back up during things like terrorism probe and missing persons search . They ’re also the same type of postulation as that made by a judge against an Occupy Wall Street protestor in thewidely publicize case of subpoenaed tweetslast year . The court finally won admission to the tweets .
With requests spiking across the board it seems clear that we should anticipate feature the government and copyright holder sift through our tweets more in the future . And if you happen to exist in the United States , you should flat up await it . [ Twitter ]
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