The Data Protection Commissioner says all requests for information from Facebook by the Irish authorities were legitimate requests.
Authorities lodged 40 applications for information on Facebook users from the social networking company in the first six months of the year - the majority of which related to criminal activity.
Facebook has published its Global Government Requests Report - which shows that information on 38 thousand people around the world was sought from the social networking site.
Billy Hawkes says Facebook does apply a strict approach to handing over user data:
