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Amazon has said the number of demands for user data made by U.S. federal and local law enforcement have increased more during the first half of 2020 than during the same period a year earlier.The disclosure came in the company’s , published Thursday.The figures show that Amazon received 23% more subpoenas and search warrants, and a 29% increase in court orders compared to the first half of 2019. That includes data collected from its Amazon.com retail storefront, Amazon Echo devices and its Kindle and Fire tablets.Breaking those figures down, Amazon said it received:The number of requests to the company’s cloud services, Amazon Web Services, also went up compared to a year earlier.But it’s not clear what caused the rise in U.S. government demands for user data. A spokesperson for Amazon did respond to a request for comment.The company saw the number of overseas requests drop by about one-third compared to the same period a year earlier. Amazon rejected 92% of the 177 overseas requests it received, turning over partial user data in 10 cases and all requested data in four cases.Amazon also said it received between 0 and 249 national security requests, flat from previous reports. Justice Department rules on disclosing classified requests only allow companies to respond in numerical ranges.Amazon was major tech companies to issue a transparency report, despite mounting pressure from privacy advocates. But its report remains compared to its Silicon Valley rivals.The company’s Ring smart camera division, despite facing criticism for its and its with law enforcement, has any data related to police requests for user data.

Amazon has said the number of demands for user data made by U.S. federal and local law enforcement have increased more during the first half of 2020 than during the same period a year earlier.The disclosure came in the company’s , published Thursday.The figures show that Amazon received 23% more subpoenas and search warrants, and a 29% increase in court orders compared to the first half of 2019. That includes data collected from its Amazon.com retail storefront, Amazon Echo devices and its Kindle and Fire tablets.Breaking those figures down, Amazon said it received:The number of requests to...

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