<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><font color="#0b5394" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Everyone can check out how many user data requects gouvernments are sending to Facebook at this link:  </font><a href="https://govtrequests.facebook.com/">https://govtrequests.facebook.com/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-08-25 17:59 GMT+00:00 Carolina Rossini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carolina.rossini@gmail.com" target="_blank">carolina.rossini@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#000000" face="Exchange SSm 4r, ExchangeWeb-Roman, Georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:18px;line-height:28px"><a href="https://www.wired.com/2016/08/whatsapp-privacy-facebook/" target="_blank">https://www.wired.com/2016/08/<wbr>whatsapp-privacy-facebook/</a></span></font><br></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Exchange SSm 4r, ExchangeWeb-Roman, Georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:18px;line-height:28px"><br></span></font></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Exchange SSm 4r",ExchangeWeb-Roman,Georgia,serif;font-size:18px;line-height:28px">“In terms of political surveillance and concerns about intrusive governmental practices, that’s a legitimate and real concern,” Chester says. “Companies like Google and Facebook are placing the lives of advocates who work in countries with totalitarian governments at risk. You want to minimize data collection, not maximize it.” Facebook received </span><a href="http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/04/global-government-requests-report-5/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 3px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(180,231,248);outline:0px;font-family:"Exchange SSm 4r",ExchangeWeb-Roman,Georgia,serif;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;line-height:28px" target="_blank">over 46,000</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Exchange SSm 4r",ExchangeWeb-Roman,Georgia,serif;font-size:18px;line-height:28px"> requests from governments for account data in the second half of last year alone. The company says it only responds to “valid requests relating to criminal cases.” And while Facebook has not suffered a serious data breach that we know of, its trove of personal information would make it invaluable to hackers.</span><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px"><table style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Times"><tbody><tr><td style="vertical-align:top"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3" style="width:45pt;height:45pt;table-layout:fixed;color:rgb(197,194,197)"><tbody><tr style="line-height:0.5em"><td style="text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px;background-color:rgb(197,194,197)">#</td><td style="text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px;background-color:rgb(197,194,197)">#</td><td style="text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px;background-color:rgb(197,194,197)">#</td></tr><tr style="line-height:0.5em"><td style="text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px;background-color:rgb(197,194,197)">#</td><td style="color:rgb(223,52,28);text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px;border-radius:50%;background-color:rgb(223,52,28)">•</td><td style="text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px;background-color:rgb(197,194,197)">#</td></tr><tr style="line-height:0.5em"><td style="text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px;background-color:rgb(197,194,197)">#</td><td style="text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px;background-color:rgb(197,194,197)">#</td><td style="text-align:center;width:16px;height:15px;background-color:rgb(197,194,197)">#</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td style="font-family:sans-serif;vertical-align:top;padding-left:16px"><div style="margin-bottom:1em"><span><div><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1">Carolina Rossini </font></b><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Vice President, International Policy and Strategy</span><br></div></span><div><a value="+16176979389" style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">+ 1 (617) 697 9389 | </a><font color="#666666" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-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