South Africa’s law enforcement agencies had a 0% success rate when it came to data requests sent to Facebook, Google, and Microsoft from January to June 2014.<\/p>\n
Facebook recently released its government data requests report<\/strong><\/a> for the first half of 2014, which showed that governments around the world made 34,946 requests for data.<\/p>\n This followed Google’s Transparency Report<\/strong><\/a> a few weeks ago which showed a 15% increase in requests compared to the second half of last year, and a 150% jump since we first began publishing this data in 2009.<\/p>\n Three of the transparency reports \u2013 from Google, Facebook, and Microsoft<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 included data relating to South Africa.<\/p>\n According to these reports the South African government and local law enforcement agencies filed 11 requests for data – all of which failed.<\/p>\n The following table provides an overview of the South African law enforcement data requests sent to Facebook, Google, and Microsoft from January to June 2014.<\/p>\n Secret NSA online spying node in South Africa: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nSouth African data requests<\/h3>\n
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\n South African Requests for Data: January to June 2014<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Platform<\/strong><\/td>\n Total requests<\/strong><\/td>\n User accounts<\/strong><\/td>\n Percentage of requests where data produced<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Facebook<\/td>\n 2<\/td>\n 1<\/td>\n 0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Google<\/td>\n 7<\/td>\n 7<\/td>\n 0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Microsoft<\/td>\n 2<\/td>\n 1<\/td>\n 0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n More on data requests<\/h3>\n