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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ToesPosted:

640 damn man that is alot lol


Yea it really is lol

WokzePosted:

damn man that is alot lol

ToesPosted:

DLT
Tuba
DLT
Dont_Rush_Me lots of reports going on


It does include Hotmail, Outlook.com, Xbox Live, Skype and others so it isn't actually that many.


oh ok lol


Also I believe it was only Usernames and IP addresses. So it's not exactly detailed.


Wow, thanks for narrowing things down for me ...

DLTPosted:

Tuba
DLT
Dont_Rush_Me lots of reports going on


It does include Hotmail, Outlook.com, Xbox Live, Skype and others so it isn't actually that many.


oh ok lol


Also I believe it was only Usernames and IP addresses. So it's not exactly detailed.

LostPosted:

So many reports :O

CearnsyPosted:

-Pinkie_Pie- DANG.. people getting reported everywhere


That's a lot but i wasn't one of them

MitzzPosted:

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

CheeseStuffedPizzaPosted:

Thats crazy. So many requests.

JamesPosted:

DANG.. people getting reported everywhere

DLTPosted:

Dont_Rush_Me lots of reports going on


It does include Hotmail, Outlook.com, Xbox Live, Skype and others so it isn't actually that many.