Government’s Efforts To Monitor Social Media Users Skyrocket
Major tech companies shared data from over 3.5 million user accounts with the U.S. government between late 2024 and early 2025, according to a report from digital privacy firm Proton. Proton’s report focuses on Apple…
Major tech companies shared data from over 3.5 million user accounts with the U.S. government between late 2024 and early 2025, according to a report from digital privacy firm Proton.
Proton’s report focuses on Apple, Google and Meta, and finds the 770% surge has occurred ever since the tech giants started disclosing government requests. Moreover, the total increases from 3.5 million accounts to 6.7 million accounts when accounting for disclosures under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) from 2014 to 2024.
The data sharing has increased under both parties, according to Bloomberg.
The number of disclosed accounts skyrocketed by 927% at Apple, 557% at Google and 668% at Meta over the course of the decade, according to Proton. Apple, Google and Meta shared data from over 282,000 American accounts during the first half of 2025.
Reported FISA content requests soared by 2,486% at Meta and 649% at Google between 2014 and 2024, according to Proton. They rose 443% between 2018 and 2024 at Apple, which lacks comparable data spanning back to 2014.
“The Trump administration continues to champion the right to privacy for Americans and American data by encouraging secure technologies and supply chains that protect user privacy from design to deployment,” a White House spokesperson told Bloomberg.
Critics have long scrutinized