Twitter Saw 237 Requests From Indian Government To Delete Accounts

The Indian authorities made data requests for 355 Twitter accounts in the January-June 2018 period while law enforcement agencies in the state asked the micro-blogging platform to remove 237 accounts for violating the police force of the land.

According to Twitter's 13th biannual Transparency Report, the company provided some information to the Indian regime in xi per centum of cases.

"Twitter withheld two accounts and 23 Tweets in response to a legal demand from the Ministry of Electronics and Data Technology (MEITY) under Section 69A of the India Information technology Act, 2000, for propagating objectionable content," the company said in the report late Thursday.

When it comes to legal requests (including 9 requests in the form of courtroom order) from India, 19 accounts and 498 Tweets were withheld equally per the rules. In total, Twitter met the legal demands to withhold some content from India in 5 percent of the cases.

"Governments (including constabulary enforcement agencies), organisations chartered to combat discrimination, and lawyers representing individuals are among the many complainants that submit legal requests," said Twitter.

In July-Dec 2017, the Indian government made information requests for 315 Twitter accounts and law enforcement agencies had asked the social network to remove 144 accounts.

Globally, Twitter received 10 percent more government information requests (combined emergency disclosure requests and non-emergency requests), which is the largest percentage increase since its July-December 2015 report.

"The latest report shows that Twitter received approximately 80 per cent more than global legal demands, impacting more than than twice as many accounts compared to the previous reporting period.

"Similar to the final reporting period, roughly 87 per cent of the total global book originated from only two countries: Russia and Turkey," Twitter said.

For the first time, Twitter published metrics pertaining to its deportment to fight spam and other malicious forms of automation.

"We challenge millions of potentially spammy (Sic) accounts every month, requesting additional details, similar email accost and telephone numbers to authenticate them. From January to June, 2018, approximately 75 per cent of accounts challenged ultimately did not pass those challenges and were suspended," informed the company.

The boilerplate number of reports it received through reporting period connected to drib — from an average of approximately 868,349 in January to approximately 504,259 in June.

"These written report decreases signal the effectiveness of our proprietary built technology in proactively identifying and challenging accounts at source and at calibration," said Twitter.

In the same period, Twitter suspended 487,363 accounts for violations related to kid sexual exploitation.

Almost 97 percent of these accounts were proactively flagged past a combination of technology, including PhotoDNA, and other purpose-built internal proprietary tools.

Twitter also suspended a full of 205,156 accounts flagged for promoting terrorism. Of those suspensions, 91 per cent consisted of accounts that were proactively flagged by internal, proprietary tools.

"The number of reports nosotros received from governments of terrorist content decreased by 77 percent compared to the previous reporting period," said Twitter.