Microsoft: We didn't receive double the amount of US government data requests
Company apologises for error - admits it received pretty much the same number as usual

Microsoft has backtracked on claims made in its latest transparency report that suggested that it had received more than double the number of surveillance requests from the US government in the first half...
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