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21,000 Users Impacted in the US 47 in Pakistan

Gentlemen of Facebook and NSA - you are going about this backwards, and we're onto you.

21,000 Users Impacted in the US

The report does not tell you the country of the user accounts impacted, only the origin of the request.

It also doesn't tell you which US Federal, state, or local agency made the request, or whether the request was for simple criminal investigation or for "national security" purposes, both of which are detailed in the FAQ. ;)

I suspect that the government is more interested in the activities of left-leaning groups like Occupy. This is another data point supporting that hypothesis, albeit not a strong one: there are far fewer Facebook users in Pakistan, for one.

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