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    Facebook: 60 percent of government requests come with gag order

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    Nicole Lee
    Nicole Lee
    04.28.2016

    In a biannual transparency report, Facebook has revealed that 60 percent of the data requests it gets from world governments includes a gag order. That means they include non-disclosure directives that prevent the company from telling the user about the request. This is the first time that Facebook has ever revealed this statistic, thanks to recent law changes in the US that allow them to do so.