Microsoft Says It Received More than 35,000 Requests for User Details from Government

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Microsoft has published new transparency reports to reveal the number of requests it received from law enforcement agencies for access to user information, saying that in the first half of 2015, only small changes have been recorded as compared to the last six months of 2014.

Overall, Microsoft received a total of 35,228 requests for customer information from law enforcement agencies, up from 31,002 requests in the second half of 2014, but the company says that the number of rejected requests double this time.

12 percent of the total number of requests have been denied because they didn't meet the legal requirements, Microsoft explained, which means that the final count increased from 2,342 last year to 4,383 in H2 2016.

What's also interesting is that out of all these requests, only 3 percent were actually seeking content created, shared, or stored on Microsoft servers and the software giant claims that unless a court order or warrant was provided, no private information was handed over.

Microsoft Says It Received More than 35,000 Requests for User Details from Governments - Softpedia

 

[AceInfinity]

Good on Microsoft for disclosing this information and seemingly not providing any information! Big thumbs up. :) We should have a right for privacy, and there seems to be too many people breaking privacy rules behind closed doors nowadays in the internet age sadly. This whole national security thing is just a buzzword into persuading people to give up their rights to a third party and I don't believe in doing that, it is silly. There's no telling what our information will be used for or if it's all for good intentions, or whether it's even being held safe and secure for that matter because everyone knows security is an illusion in today's world.