Twitter Faces A Surge In Account Data Requests By Governments
Protecting users’ personal information is one of the main duties of social networks. However, in some cases, these social platforms have to cooperate with governments and give up the user’s data. Twitter is now revealing the increasing requests of governments to access users’ information, especially journalists. Twitter says it has seen “record highs” in data requests by governments from July-December 2021. During this period, Twitter received 47,572 legal demands on 198,931 accounts....