SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook said on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) it received more than 25,000 government data requests in the first half of 2013, with the largest number from the United States.

The company’s first “transparency report” showed Facebook received between 11,000 and 12,000 requests for data in the United States, affecting between 20,000 and 21,000 users.

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