Yahoo published its first transparency report on Friday, disclosing the number of government requests for data that the company received in the first six months of 2013.
Yahoo's transparency report comes on the heels of revelations about top secret NSA surveillance programs like PRISM, which allegedly allows the United States government to access data from major Internet companies.
See also: How Yahoo Fought Against PRISM in Secret — and Lost
Overall, governments from 17 countries listed in the report sent Yahoo 29,470 requests for data related to 62,775 accounts. The U.S. leads the pack, with 12,444 requests impacting 40,322 users. The States is followed by countries like Germany (4,295), Italy (2,637), Taiwan (1,942), France (1,855) and the UK (2,832).
For U.S. requests, Yahoo disclosed non-content data for 6,798 requests (55%), content for 4,604 requests (37%) and found no data in 801 requests (6%). Yahoo rejected 241 requests (2%).

In the report, Yahoo tried to downplay the scope of government requests, underlining the fact that they only touch a small number of users.
"The total number of accounts specified in these government data requests during the reporting period comprised less than one one-hundredth of one percent of Yahoo users worldwide," the company wrote.
Yahoo's first transparency report follows in the footsteps of Google, Twitter and, more recently, Microsoft and Facebook.
The report is very similar to ones published by other tech companies, but the U.S. government didn't allow Yahoo to publish specific numbers on requests related to national security. In fact, requests coming from the NSA and related to national security are lumped into the number of other requests.
In a disclaimer accompanying the report on U.S. data requests, Yahoo wrote:
The U.S. Government does not permit us to disclose additional details regarding the number of requests, if any, under national security authorities at this time, or even to separate them in aggregate from other requests. Additionally, the government would not authorize us to separate NSLs [National Security Letters] from other government data requests or to express the NSLs that we have received, if any, as a range from 0 to 1,000 — even though the government allowed other providers to do so in the past.
The U.S. government gave Google permission to publish ranges of the number of NSLs it received. In August, Facebook published its first transparency report, breaking down requests stemming from national security investigations, also listed in ranges.
Yahoo pledged to publish a transparency report every six months, promising to keep fighting to publish data on national security-related requests.
"We strenuously disagree with the government's position and will continue to advocate for greater transparency regarding requests made under national security authorities," the company wrote.
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