The transparency report published by Facebook on its activities in the last six months (January-June 2015) shows that many countries around the world are requesting information from the company about tens of thousands of people - and are responding positively, in many cases.
One of them is, you might not be happy to know, Israel.
The report shows that during this period of time, various countries asked Facebook to obtain information on over 57,000 citizens who also have profiles on the social network.
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According to a report by Raz Kaplan in 'Macau', the United States is the country that requested information on the most citizens within its borders - 27,000. About 80% of the requests were approved. Next in the ranking: India, which requested to track 6,200 of its citizens, followed by Britain, Italy, France, Germany and Brazil.
In the Middle East, Turkey is the country that requested the most information about its citizens: out of 475 requests submitted to Facebook to track its citizens, almost all were approved.
And where are we? Well, it ranks 22nd in the index of countries asking Facebook to track its citizens - having submitted 237 requests. 63% of these requests were approved at least partially, and the country received information on 150 citizens.
Facebook, which controls both the social network and WhatsApp and Instagram, is able to compile a very accurate profile of people around the world, which makes many countries eager for information.
And not just Facebook: Google provided information on the search and email data of 224 Israelis during 2014, while Apple provided information on 12 Israeli iPhones in the past six months.
