Google fielded 19 percent more requests from the U.S. government for data on its users in the first half of this year compared to the second half of last year, the company said Monday.

Of the 12,539 requests it received, the company produced user data in around 10,000 of those cases, Google said in its latest transparency report, which tallies government data requests from around the world and Google’s response to them. The majority of those requests came in the form of subpoenas and search warrants.

Google employs a nuanced approach for determining how to comply with government data requests, which usually pertain to content and non-content information stored across Google’s services like Gmail and YouTube.

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