Exponential growth of affordable handsets in India has helped social networking giant Facebook clock 62 million mobile phone users by June 2013 in the world's second most populous country.The California-based firm reported a healthy growth of 5 per cent in its monthly active users (MAUs) in India to 82 million as of June 30, 2013 from 78 million in June 30, 2012.Globally, monthly active users for mobile rose by 51 per cent to 819 million as of June 30, 2013.
- Indian government authorities made 3245 requests for information on 4,144 Facebook users in the first six months of 2013.
- The US topped the list with over 11,000 requests for user data, while the UK was third with 1,975 requests.
- Facebook, which has become incredibly popular in India and has over 82 million active users in the country. This makes India the second biggest country after the US and Canada.
- on an average made 18 requests per day about data related to its users between January and June this year from the social networking giant, which complied with about 50 per cent of those request.
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