Transparency Report, First Half 2022

Right this moment, we’re releasing our newest Transparency Report for the primary half of 2022.

As at all times, we attempt to be open in regards to the methods we shield customers’ privateness, safety and entry to data on-line. That’s why we publish biannual transparency studies to offer element on the numbers and keep accountability in our work. Through the years, we’ve expanded our report to incorporate the quantity of content material restrictions based mostly on native legislation, the variety of world web disruptions that restrict entry to our merchandise and, most lately, our proactive efforts to guard mental property. Moreover, our Transparency Report consists of the Group Requirements Enforcement Report for Q3 of 2022, which offers information on how we take motion towards violating content material throughout our platforms.

Authorities Requests for Person Information

Through the first six months of 2022, world authorities requests for consumer information elevated 10.5% from 214,777 to 237,414. Of the full quantity, the US continues to submit the biggest variety of requests, adopted by India, Germany, Brazil, France and the UK.

Within the US, we obtained 69,363 requests, which was 15.6% greater than the full we obtained within the second half of 2021. Non-disclosure orders prohibiting Meta from notifying the consumer elevated barely by 0.6% to 71.1% within the first half of 2022. As well as, on account of transparency updates launched within the 2016 USA Freedom Act, the US authorities lifted the non-disclosure orders on three Nationwide Safety Letters we obtained between 2016 and 2019. These requests, together with the US authorities’s authorization letters, can be found under.

As we’ve got mentioned in prior studies, we at all times scrutinize each authorities request we obtain to verify it’s legally legitimate, regardless of which authorities makes the request.  We adjust to authorities requests for consumer data solely the place we’ve got a good-faith perception that the legislation requires us to take action. As well as, we assess whether or not a request is per internationally acknowledged requirements on human rights, together with due course of, privateness, free expression and the rule of legislation. Once we do comply, we solely produce data that’s narrowly tailor-made to that request. If we decide {that a} request seems to be poor or overly broad, we push again and can struggle in court docket, if mandatory. We don’t present governments with “back doors” to individuals’s data. For extra details about how we evaluation and reply to authorities requests for consumer information and the safeguards we apply, please seek advice from our FAQs.

Content material Restrictions

When content material is reported as violating native legislation, however doesn’t go towards our Group Requirements, we might restrict entry to that content material within the nation the place the native violation is alleged. Throughout this reporting interval, the quantity of content material restrictions based mostly on native legislation elevated globally 75% from 50,959 in H2 2021 to 89,368 in H1 2022.

Web Disruptions

We oppose shutdowns, throttling and different disruptions of web connectivity and we stay involved by the development in direction of this method in some nations. Even non permanent disruptions of web companies can undermine human rights and financial exercise. That’s why we report the variety of deliberate web disruptions brought on by governments around the globe that affect the supply of our merchandise. Within the first half of 2022, we recognized 64 disruptions of Fb companies in 15 nations, in comparison with 38 disruptions in 12 nations within the second half of 2021.

Mental Property