authorities requests for data point from Amazon Web Services spiked in the first half of 2017 , with Amazon receiving 1,936 requests from the US jurisprudence enforcement entity . During the latter one-half of 2016,Amazon received 1,583 request .
Amazon’slatest semiannual foil reportshows that the company received 1,618 subpoenas , 229 lookup warrants , and 89 other orders require it to hand over information . Of those , the company said it either fully or partly responded to 1,465 of the asking it meet from law enforcement authorization in the US . harmonize toZDNet , Amazon ’s compliance in the latter half of 2017 was higher than in premature periods .
compare to other technical school giants , Amazon ’s overall bit are strikingly humbled — Google , for instance , received16,823 requestsfor user data from US officials in early 2017 . But Amazon ’s transparency report only cover its cloud business , so it may receive more requests for shopping data or Alexa data that it does not expose .
Amazon said it received 75 requests from authorities outside the US but only complied with two of them .
Amazon begin a poor grade on the Electronic Frontier Foundation ’s annual“Who Has Your Back ? ” report , which ranks technical school companies on how well they stick up for substance abuser ’ privacy rights . EFF render Amazon quotation for doing some work to protect users but say the company could improve by apprize its user when the government requests their data and by fighting gag orders that sometimes accompany data requests .
[ ZDNet ]
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