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Re:Global Government Requests Report by kshatrea on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @01:06PM (#6284686)
I am not so sure the US is outpacing the rest by far. Assuming 179 million American FB MAU [1] and the next highest (India, a country I am a citizen of) having ~3200 requests for roughly 78 million MAU [2]. you get (78/179 * 11500) ~ 5000. So India is not too far off and I would suggest giving it time :). Btw, I used 11500 for America as the mean between 11k and 12k since only the range is given.

I guess all governments are spying on their citizens :).

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/13/facebook-mobile-user-count/

[2] http://www.livemint.com/Consumer/NwNFvLukHEbgbVQH9Dd7UK/Indi...

EDIT: corrected American FB user type to MAU from DAU earlier.

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Re:Global Government Requests Report by arjie on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @02:02PM (#6285069)
Yeah, but India is a country where private citizens can sometimes obtain cell phone records of other private citizens just by virtue of being powerful men. It's a shitty place for privacy.
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