Pinterest’s First Transparency Report Shows Few Government Data Requests

Looks like the law doesn’t care much about Pinterest. The social photo sharing network pinned its transparency report to its company blog, revealing for the first time the number of requests for data it receives from government agencies.

The most striking thing about the report: You can almost count the number of requests for information on two hands. Pinterest said it received a total of 12 inquiries from the government over the second half of 2013, 11 of which were from local law enforcement. The remaining request came from the Federal government. All of the requests came from United States government agencies.

Pinterest receives far fewer requests compared to other tech giants in the consumer Internet space. Microsoft, for instance, received more than 35,000 requests for user data over the second half of 2013. Facebook received somewhere in the range of 15,000.

[March 10]