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Twitter's reluctance to hand over personal data points to looming clash with Indian government

By Phoebe Seers ( July 19, 2021, 06:34 GMT | Insight) -- Twitter’s refusal to comply with requests for information has set it on a collision course with the Indian government, with fresh data revealing that the social-media company acted on fewer than 1 percent of New Delhi’s requests in the second half of 2020. The Twitter biannual transparency report, published last week, also reveals a sharp increase in account-information requests by India, which has now overtaken the United States as the most prolific applicant for information linked to Twitter accounts.Twitter’s refusal to comply with information requests has set it on a collision course with the Indian government, with fresh data revealing that the social-media company acted on fewer than 1 percent of New Delhi’s requests for account information in the second half of 2020....

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