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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MitzzPosted:

thats alot, its a good company though

Connor1857Posted:

Probably half of them are the same things..

ToesPosted:

Yikes
Vice
EMT Looks like a lot of reports for such a good company


Yea it is, they usually have good security.




No, they have bad security according to this.


I said usually. This is odd of them.

NotedPosted:

Vice
EMT Looks like a lot of reports for such a good company


Yea it is, they usually have good security.


Apparently they don't, I thought the same before though

ToesPosted:

EMT Looks like a lot of reports for such a good company


Yea it is, they usually have good security.

MTVPosted:

Looks like a lot of reports for such a good company

ToesPosted:

-LOST- So many reports :O


Indeed it is. I cant believe it.

ToesPosted:

Yikes Dang, thats a lot


Yea it is, its terrible.

LosersPosted:

damn thats to much

ToesPosted:

Mitzz wow! thats insane, im going to research more about this


You should, just dont fall into it yourself :P


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