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Q: Government agents in 74 countries demanded information on about 38,000 Facebook users in the first half of this year, with about half the orders coming from authorities in the United States, the company said Tuesday. 
  
 FILE This July 16, 2013 FILE photo, shows a sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Government agents in 74 countries demanded information on about 38,000 Facebook users in the first half... (Associated Press) 
  
 The social-networking giant is the latest technology company to release figures on how often governments seek information about its customers. Microsoft and Google have done the same. 
  
 As with the other companies, it's hard to discern much from Facebook's data, besides the fact that, as users around the globe flocked to the world's largest social network, police and intelligence agencies followed. 
  
 Facebook and Twitter have become organizing platforms for activists and, as such, have become targets for governments. During anti-government protests in Turkey in May and June, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called social media "the worst menace to society." 
  
 At the time, Facebook denied it provided information about protest organizers to the Turkish government. 
  
 Data released Tuesday show authorities in Turkey submitted 96 requests covering 173 users. Facebook said it provided some information in about 45 of those cases, but there's no information on what was turned over and why. 
  
 "We fight many of these requests, pushing back when we find legal deficiencies and narrowing the scope of overly broad or vague requests," Colin Stretch, Facebook's general counsel company said in a blog post. "When we are required to comply with a particular request, we frequently share only basic user information, such as name." 
  
 Facebook spokeswoman Sarah Feinberg said the company stands by its assertions that it gave no information regarding the Turkey protests. 
  
 "The data included in the report related to Turkey is about child endangerment and emergency law enforcement requests," she said. 
  
 Facebook and other technology companies have been criticized for helping the National Security Agency secretly collect data on customers. Federal law gives government the authority to demand data without specific warrants, and while companies can fight requests in secret court hearings, it's an uphill battle. 
  
 Facebook turned over some data in response to about 60 percent of those requests. 
  
 It's not clear from the Facebook data how many of the roughly 26,000 government requests on 38,000 users were for law-enforcement purposes and how many were for intelligence gathering. 
  
 Technology and government officials have said criminal investigations are far more common than national security matters as a justification for demanding information from companies. 
  
 The numbers are imprecise because the federal government forbids companies from revealing how many times they've been ordered to turn over information about their customers. Facebook released only a range of figures for the United States. 
  
 The company said it planned to start releasing these figures regularly. ||||| Facebook has built an empire on getting to know its users’ preferences, sometimes with a frightening accuracy. A while back, the company launched a new advertising campaign called “Sponsored Stories” that incorporated users’ “likes” into advertisements. It offered peer endorsement of products and a way for Facebook to make money. But the new ad format was a step too far for many individuals, who were concerned about unknowingly having their name woven into an advertisement. 
  
 A lawsuit that accused Facebook of misappropriating users’ images ended with a settlement on Monday. 
  
 The agreement states that the social media site has to pay approximately 614,000 Facebook users $15 each for using their information for advertising purposes. While approximately 150 million Facebook users’ images and likenesses were allegedly used to promote products and services through the Sponsored Stories program, only users who entered a claim form by May 2, 2013, were eligible to receive settlement funds. 
  
 It is far from clear that any of the users featured in the advertisements were “actually harmed in any meaningful way,” writes US District Judge Richard Seeborg in the statement. 
  
 “Plaintiffs have repeatedly relied primarily on their argument that Facebook benefited, rather than that class members were harmed,” the settlement reads. Even if the users had not read the entire Terms of Service agreement, they were presumably aware that engaging with the social media site – hitting the “like” button, for example – would broadcast their preferences to their social network, Judge Seeborg explains in the court document. This does not give the social media site a carte blanche for using any information from the site, but it does not force the site to adopt “pro-privacy” policies. 
  
 As part of the settlement, Facebook will make changes to its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities to give users greater information about and control over how they are featured in the Sponsored Stories. 
  
 Facebook users cannot currently opt-out of the Sponsored Stories advertisements, though the ads do respect users’ current privacy settings. For example, if a user likes a Starbucks page, only his or her friends will be able to see the “like.” The social media site recommends users adjust privacy settings on their activity log if they are concerned about information featured in Sponsored Stories. |||||
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American police and intelligence agencies are by far the most eager to get their hands on the data of Facebook users, the company has revealed in its first detailed report on such requests. Facebook says that in the first half of this year, it received requests for information on around 38,000 users from 74 countries, with the US responsible for requests on between 20,000 and 21,000 users, Reuters reports. The company says it complied at least partially with around 80% of the requests. "We fight many of these requests, pushing back when we find legal deficiencies and narrowing the scope of overly broad or vague requests," a Facebook spokesman says. The company granted 45 requests from Turkish agencies but it denies any of them were related to protest organizers, the AP reports. In other Facebook news, a lawsuit has been settled with an agreement to pay 614,000 Facebook users $15 each for using their information for advertising in its "Sponsored Stories" campaign, reports the Christian Science Monitor. The campaign used the images of around 150 million users but only those who entered a claim before May this year will get the payout.