Yahoo saw a significant drop in the number of government requests for data about its users in the second half of 2013, compared with the first half, according to the semiannual transparency report that the Internet company published on Thursday.Google, on the other hand, saw a small increase in data requests over the same period.Yahoo said it had received 21,425 requests from 17 countries for information on 32,493 accounts from July 1 to Dec. 31, 2013, with the United States accounting for about one-third of them.
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