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US Government requests for personal data increasing since Prism revelations, Twitter reveals

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By Steven Raeburn, N/A

August 1, 2013 | 2 min read

Twitter has disclosed that the the United States government makes the vast majority of requests for user information on Twitter, and the volume of those requests is increasing.

This is Twitter's first report since the Prism furore

Twitter published a Transparency Report in the wake of the Prism revelations and international concern about data mining.

The report disclosed that the U.S. government made 902 user information requests since January, comprising 785 of all requests received.

The next highest number of requests was from Japan, with a 87 requests.

"We believe it's important to be able to publish numbers of national security requests - including FISA disclosures - separately from non-secret requests," said Jeremy Kessel , manager of legal policy at Twitter.

“We may not be allowed to provide notice to users in all situations or win every fight we take up on behalf of our users, but Twitter remains steadfastly committed to being transparent about requests we’ve received and the resulting actions we’ve taken,” he added.

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