First ever Facebook "Government Requests" report reveals the most inquisitive authorities.

First ever Facebook "Government Requests" report reveals the most inquisitive authorities.HT: NakedSecurity.

Facebook has released its first everTransparency Report, listing all the national governments that have requested access to information on its members. 

The report includes how many requests were made, how many users the requests affected, and how many resulted in data being handed over.

The stats, covering the first half of 2013, show a significant chunk of the data is demanded by US authorities - somewhere between 11,000 and 12,000 requests received, referencing over 20,000 US-based members, of which some 79% resulted in data being handed over.

The closest rival is India, with 3,245 requests for data on 4,144 citizens and a 50% hit rate. The other big hitters are the expected big European countries, with the UK, Germany, Italy and France next in sequence on the list. Turkey sought data on only 170 users