In the first six months of 2022, the Indian government made the second-highest number of requests to Meta for user data, according to the tech giant's transparency report for the first half of this year. Meta owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, among other products. India made 55,497 requests from January to June – second only to the United States that made 69,363 requests for user data. The US and India were followed by Germany, Brazil, France and the UK. A total of 237,414 requests were received globally. In India, 51,602 of the total requests were "legal process requests" and 3,895 were "emergency disclosure requests". "Some data" was produced by Meta for 66.59 percent of the requests.