Microsoft report reveals over 75k law enforcement requests in 2012

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Similar to Google's Transparency Report Microsoft has released a report detailing the amount of information requests by law enforcement for user information. They have stated that they intend to released a report detailing this information every six months from here on in. The company's report suggests that they received 75,378 reports in 2012, if they had acted on every request it would have affected 137,424 unique accounts or two one-hundredths of one percent of the entire userbase.



Of the requests received only 82% resulted in information disclosure to law enforcement. The full report can be found here.

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The_Light_KnightPosted:

Dang. I think I was involved in a few of them

CearnsyPosted:

DSR
Yikes Wow, thats crazy!

Wonder what itll be like next year...


I was thinking the same thing..


Most likely higher if they don't do anything about it most of the time

NotedPosted:

Yikes Wow, thats crazy!

Wonder what itll be like next year...


I was thinking the same thing..

MTVPosted:

Yikes
EMT
Yikes Wow, thats crazy!

Wonder what itll be like next year...


Maybe less if they improve everything


yeah, lets hope they imrpove..


They prob will improve it

MTVPosted:

Yikes Wow, thats crazy!

Wonder what itll be like next year...


Maybe less if they improve everything

DarksydeZachPosted:

This makes me wonder what law authorities are trying to pull from Microsoft. I would imagine most of these are related to hotmail.

ZeffPosted:

Lol thats a lot.

catpicsPosted:

That is alot

Soldier_Posted:

M60
Centurial Wow, 75k requests. That's a ton, i wonder how many their will be this year.


Most likely more than last year


Yeah, im guessing about 125k

Soldier_Posted:

Yikes
zR-Tx
Yikes
Centurial Wow, 75k requests. That's a ton, i wonder how many their will be this year.


Yeah, tell me about it. Watch there be like 100k this year, lol.


There will be more that 100k probably it gets more and more every year


Yeah, thats true.
Im wondering how many people actually got busted.