Twitter receives more deletion requests
Twitter is receiving more and more requests from authorities to delete content. In the first half of 2016, 4434 such requests were received from government or police authorities.
This is 13% more than in the previous six months, as the company announced in its transparency report on Wednesday. The vast majority of these interventions came from Turkey (2,493) and Russia (1,601). These requests to delete content related to a total of 20,594 Twitter accounts; in 15,195 cases, the company did not comply with the requests. According to the company, these requests were typically based on the fact that content violated legal provisions in the countries concerned. Only 98 deletion requests were received from the USA, of which only one was complied with. However, the USA led the way when it came to requests for detailed information on Twitter accounts. In the first half of the year, the country asked Twitter for more detailed information on 2520 accounts and received this in 82 percent of cases, Twitter announced. Most of the US requests came from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the US Secret Service and the New York Attorney General's Office. (SDA)
