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if Apple's recent battles with the FBI had you worried about your privacy well it turns out we were just getting warmed up in its global government request report Facebook revealed it received almost 50,000 government requests for user data in the last six months of 2015 topping the list of these inquisitive countries India in the United States in these cases user data can mean everything from their IP address to their actual wall posts and while we as users are relinquishing our privacy it seems like the US government is worried about keeping its own anonymity as sixty percent of these requests came with non-disclosure agreements meaning your account could have been accessed without you even knowing it and even if your account wasn't access the government can still ask Facebook to block certain posts if they violate local laws during the recent terrorist attack in France Facebook got hit with 32000 block requests from the French government to remove a photo in this specific case it was to preserve the dignity of the victims but there can be a fine line between this and censorship this is the first time Facebook has shared this data publicly and stated it scrutinizes each request for user data they receive for legal sufficiency if a request appears to be deficient or overly broad they push back hard and will fight in court if necessary for a network of over 1.6 billion users 50,000 requests may not seem like a lot but judging by the numbers it's a practice that appears to be on the rise and that should be more than enough to make you rethink your next post