Facebook reveals India ranked 2nd on list of nations that made most 'take down requests'

Facebook's latest report on "take-down" requests issued by governments across the globe has shown that India ranked second on the list of countries that made the most requests.

The report said that the social media website received 5,473 requests from India during the final six months of last year, reported Tech Crunch.

Facebook disclosed that it provided information in just 45 percent of those cases in India but it did enact 5,832 cases of 'content restriction' in India.

The social media platform noted that although requests from many Western countries in the second half of 2014 decreased, the drop in "take-down requests" was offset by increases from India, Turkey and Russia.

Facebook said that it received 14,274 requests from the U.S. government for information about users and provided information in about 79 percent of those requests. The numbers represented a slight reduction on the 15,433 requests received in the first half of 2014. It also added that zero restrictions were made by the U.S. during the same period.

The report said that requests for user data from the U.K. government fell slightly from 2,619 in the first half of 2014, to 2,366 in the second half of the year. The company provided data in two-thirds of the requests and restricted three pieces of content between July and December 2014.

Facebook said that the total number of requests received by it between July and December 2014 rose from 34,946 in the first half of the year, to 35,051.

The U.S. company said in a statement that the information was published because Facebook wanted people to know the "extent and nature of the requests we receive from governments and the policies we have in place to process them.