Friday marked the release of the first government transparency report from Yahoo, a document posted on the internet company’s corporate website that will likely receive a good deal of scrutiny thanks to the National Security Agency/PRISM controversy that exploded earlier this summer. According to a New York Times article, the report details the number of information requests Yahoo has received about its users from government agencies all over the world, not just in the United States.

Naturally, the United States still led the pack in number of information requests. According to the report, the U.S. government has lodged 12,444 separate data requests with Yahoo, inquiries that included a whopping 40,322 different accounts. From the looks of the report, Yahoo wasn’t terribly discerning with which requests they chose to honor and which they chose to reject, either. The internet company handed over user information in relation to content – a segment that includes Yahoo Mail or Messenger communications, information stored in the Yahoo Address Book, or photos posted to the company’s photo-sharing service, Flickr – in 4,604 cases, and bent to the government’s will 6,798 times when asked for names, locations, or IP addresses of users.

Overall, Yahoo approved roughly 98 percent of the data requests made by the United States government – not the best batting average among internet companies, and probably not a figure that most Yahoo users will be terribly thrilled with.

Users looking for a less invasive government might appreciate Canada, who only made some 29 data requests concerning 43 accounts throughout the first six months of 2013.

Of course, while the number of governmental data requests may appear extreme from looking at the Yahoo report, such queries seem to be just one of the norms of modern internet-based communication. Numerous major internet companies with wide user-bases, including Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft publish similar reports, and at least a few of them see comparable numbers. For instance, in a recent report of its own, Facebook revealed that it had received just under 38,000 requests during the first six months of 2013.

Also, the numbers may give a skewed vision of Yahoo’s user privacy mentality. In a blog post, General Counsel Ron Bell made sure to note that his company will “regularly push back against improper requests for user data, including fighting requests that are unclear, improper, overbroad or unlawful,” and that the requests received only impact a very small percentage of Yahoo users anyway.

Like similar companies, Yahoo intends to publish a government transparency report every six months.