Yahoo has joined Google and Microsoft in releasing its first transparency report, detailing the number of government requests for users' data.
It said 1,709 disclosure requests were made to Yahoo in the UK between January and June of this year, although 27% of those were rejected.
Yahoo in the US received the most requests, where the total was 12,444.
A spokesman said Yahoo employees "regularly push back against improper requests for user data".
Yahoo's report, which will now be updated every six months, details requests for users' data by 17 countries in which the company has a legal entity.
The publication follows increased pressure on technology companies by privacy groups to disclose details of their collaboration with law enforcement agencies.
Protecting PrismChina frees man jailed for Yahoo email
Yahoo has welcomed the news that a man jailed in 2005 after the company disclosed an email in which he criticised Chinese authorities has been released.
Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist and poet, discussed classified details of the government's media restrictions on reporting the 15th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in an email to a New York website.
He was sentenced to 10 years behind bars, but has been released 15 months before the end of his sentence.
At the time, Yahoo said it was just complying with local laws. Shi's family sued Yahoo and settled out of court in 2007.
The move comes a few weeks after Yahoo closed down its email services in China, and began withdrawing some of its other services from the market.
Yahoo had previously taken legal action to require the US government to publish documents over the next few months, which it said would show the company had objected to the establishment of Prism, a surveillance programme uncovered by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Under the US government's Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa), technology companies are not allowed to publicly disclose details of requests via programs like Prism, unless the data is released in an aggregated fashion, mixed together with less sensitive information.
Google last published a transparency report in December 2012, which showed 1,458 applications from government officers and courts in the UK over the last six months of 2012. It had 8,438 requests from US officials in the same period.
Ron Bell, general counsel at Yahoo, blogged about the release of the report and emphasised the measures the company's legal department took to reject data requests whenever possible.
The highest number of rejected disclosure requests was in Germany, where Yahoo refused to disclose the details of 816 users. Singapore had the greatest percentage of refusals, with 41% of all requests denied.
Only 2% of requests in the US were rejected, although in a further 801 requests with which Yahoo complied, the company had found no data on the users in question.
The report does not include requests for data on users of Tumblr, a microblogging site recently acquired by Yahoo, although the company says details will be made available at a later date.
Highest number of data requests | ||
|---|---|---|
| Government data requests | Number of rejected requests | |
| United States | 12,444 | 241 |
| Germany | 4,295 | 816 |
| Italy | 2,637 | 584 |
| Taiwan | 1,942 | 46 |
| France | 1,855 | 324 |
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