The U.S. is Nosy: Twitter Releases First Transparency Report - whipplemintwoubity

In honor of American independence, Chitter has released its first ever transparency report. The Twitter Transparence Describe includes data from Jan 1, 2022 through June 1, 2022, and Chitter says it plans to update the information twice a year.

The transparency theme is pretty practically what it sounds like–Twitter's attempt to be transparent about which governments are requesting information from Twitter, what percentage of those requests produced some or all information, and how numerous accounts were nominative in those requests. Much requests, as Twitter points out, are typically connected with condemnable investigations.

Not surprisingly, our real ain U.S. is the nosiest government, with 679 requests in the past six months, targeting almost 1000 user accounts. The United States' requests accounted for 80 percent of all requests (out of 23 countries). The second nosiest government was Nippon, with 98 requests in the past half-dozen months, targeting almost 150 user accounts.

Twitter notes that it does not comply with all government request for a variety of reasons. For representative, the report states, Twitter does not comply with government requests that bash not identify a specific Twitter account, seeks to specialize overly-broad requests, and may non comply with a request if a Twitter substance abuser challenges the request after organism notified. Twitter says it notifies users of requests for their account information, except when prohibited past law.

Chitter's Transparentness Report is leastways partially motivated by Google's Transparency Report, which the company has been poster for about two years. In its blog post announcing the report, Twitter notes that the story is "inspired away the nifty bring done by our peers @Google," and that the main goal of the account is to "shed more light on government requests received for user information, government activity requests received to withhold content, and DMCA takedown notices received from copyright holders."

The Transparency Report also gives information on the count of "formal government requests" Twitter has standard to remove operating theater deduct content on Chirrup.

This chart shows the keep down of removal requests by court order and away government agencies, the percentage of instances in which any or all content was remote (0 percent in every case, during the past six months), and the number of accounts specified. Chitter apparently only received half dozen removal requests in the past six months, which is dependable news–it means governments are not outright security review social media (though they may, course, be secretly security review information technology).

The Reputation also shows the number of copyright takedown notices Twitter received in the past six months:

According to Twitter, the companionship receives a important number of "misfiled, non-right of first publication complaints" through its network form, and indeed does not comply with all request.

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Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/465772/the_u_s_is_nosy_twitter_releases_first_transparency_report.html

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