Prism and Facebook agree on public data collection transparency after 10K requests in six months

Charlee Gothard
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Company can communicate figures "only in aggregate and as a range", says Facebook lawyer

After revealing that it received as many as 10,000 data requests in the latter half of 2012 – amounting to between 18,000 and 19,000 user accounts – Facebook has also publicly revealed more about t...

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