Following in the footsteps of other major internet-oriented companies, Microsoft published a report on Friday revealing the number of user data requests made by world government agencies during the first half of 2013. An article from Tech Crunch puts the total request number at 37,196 and the number of impacted accounts at 66,539.

Those numbers are roughly on track with similar reports from last year. For 2012, Microsoft received some 75,000 requests throughout the entire calendar year, relating to 137,000 accounts. Barring a major increase or decrease in governmental data requests during the second six months of 2013, privacy-minded internet users can at least take solace in one thing: governments aren’t requesting more data this year than they have previously.

The good news is that Microsoft was incredibly discerning with the requests it chose to approve. According to the data report, Microsoft only disclosed customer data for 2.19 percent of the requests it received (that’s about 814 requests total). Most of those concessions were made to the United States government, which Microsoft – along with Google and numerous other technology companies – is currently suing for the right to reveal more information about user data requests related to national security.

Microsoft and other internet-based companies went through a major image crisis earlier this year, when revelations about the National Security Agency’s PRISM surveillance program and about FISA (the Federal International Surveillance Act) burst into controversy involving warrentless government investigations and unconstitutional breaches of privacy. In an effort to save face, Microsoft and other internet companies scrambled to reveal as much information to users as they could about data requests.

The government gave Microsoft and other companies permission to publish information about most PRISM data requests, but has still prohibited the publication of data requests related to national security. The government issued a statement earlier this year that United States citizens needn’t worry too much about PRISM and FISA, since most surveillance efforts were actually tailored to target terrorist threats outside of U.S. borders. That statement did little to help Microsoft, Google, Facebook, or any other internet entity, since all serve global audiences. The FISA lawsuit has been launched in order to help Microsoft toward a goal of fuller national and international transparency.

“The United States has long been admired around the world for its leadership in promoting free speech and open discussion,” Microsoft stated in its report. “We benefit from living in a country with a Constitution that guarantees the fundamental freedom to engage in free expression unless silence is required by a narrowly tailored, compelling Government interest.”