Facebook Inc said in a report that authorities demands for its user data soared in the very first half of 2015, taking a tendency that began at least two years back when the business started showing such requests to new heights. Authorities access to private data from Web and phone companies is now a controversial privacy problem since former secret agent agency contractor Edward Snowden shown surreptitious surveillance programs. The technology sector has pushed for greater transparency on government data requests, offending user privacy and trying to shake off worries they are working with the authorities. The biannual report of Facebook is among the main indicators of government interest in the data of the company’s. The social networking giant is normally prohibited to publicize special requests by spy agencies and law enforcement. In the first half of the year, Facebook took down and other 20,568 bits of content that broken local laws, more than doubling the amount taken down Such limited content contains anything to characterizations of violent crimes from Nazi propaganda in Germany. The authorities regularly requests IP addresses, basic subscriber information or account content, including people’s posts online. Britain, Germany and France also made up a sizable portion of the requests and had much more content limited in 2015. A number of the content for instance, may connect to Holocaust denial, Facebook said. Turkey and India were responsible for the majority of the content taken down for breaking local laws. India had 15,155 bits of content limited – almost triple the sum in the second half of 2014 – while Turkey had 4,496, up from 3,624. Authorities have relied on the vast troves of user information of Facebook to help investigate criminal cases, which are in charge of the majority of the requests, Facebook said. “Facebook doesn’t supply any authorities with ‘back doors’ or direct access to people’s data,” Facebook composed. Facebook, Microsoft Corp, Alphabet Inc and Yahoo Inc, once Google, last year started printing details about the amount of government requests for information they receive.