A part of me says that it is good that they are using FB logs to capture criminals.
However, being the “largest democracy” in the world, are Indian authorities being dictatorial when it comes to censorship?
India tops Facebook’s content restriction requests list - The Hindu
Facebook restricted access to nearly 6,000 pieces of information on its website in India during July-December 2014 period, the highest for any country, following requests from government and other agencies to act against hate-content on the social media platform…
India is followed by Turkey at 3,624 number of pieces of restricted content, Germany (60), Russia (55) and Pakistan (54).
India made 5,473 requests for account data in the six months ending December 2014, second only to the United States, which made 14,274 requests in the same period.
According to Facebook, government officials sometimes make requests for data about people who use Facebook as part of official investigations.
The vast majority of these requests relate to criminal cases like robberies or kidnappings. In many of these cases, government requests seek basic subscriber information such as name and length of service. Other requests have asked for IP address logs or actual account content, it said.