Microsoft Law Enforcement Requests
Microsoft's reported legal demands for customer data, half-yearly since 2013: requests received, accounts/users specified, and the four disclosure outcomes — content disclosed, only non-content data disclosed, no data found, or rejected. A tidy-long dataset: each row is one measured value identified by half-year × report section × country × metric. The report split changes across eras — a combined report covers 2013–2016 (with Skype also reported separately in 2013), and criminal, emergencies and civil splits take over from 2017 — so sections must never be summed together; every view on this page pins one.
Trends
Interactive views of the reported figures. Each chart has a text alternative for screen readers.
Requests by report section
Legal demands received per half-year, by report split — the combined report hands over to the criminal/emergencies/civil splits in 2017.
Top 10 countries (criminal requests)
Countries ranked by criminal law-enforcement requests, 2017 onward.
Disclosure outcomes (criminal)
How criminal requests were resolved per half-year: content disclosed, only non-content data, no data found, or rejected.
Outcome totals (criminal)
Criminal-request metrics summed over all half-years since 2017.
What the report covers
The number of reported values in each report section. Counts of rows, not summed quantities.
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