VKontakte will reveal statistics of government requests about users

VKontakte plans to publish "general statistics of requests" that come from authorities and relate to user data. This is reported by the Russian service of the BBC.

What information is meant by "general request statistics", the publication does not specify.

“We plan to make the process more transparent and share the overall statistics of requests,” VKontakte said.

Russian service "BBC"

• Over the past month, it became known about four criminal cases of extremism initiated in the Altai Territory due to publications on VKontakte. After that, social network users began to talk about the need to delete their accounts.
• VKontakte opposed the "unreasonable persecution" for publications on the social network. The company also announced new privacy settings; in particular, users will be able to hide all the content of their page from those who are not their friends.
• Major Western IT companies, in particular Facebook , Twitter and Google , regularly report on appeals from intelligence agencies in their reports.