At a glance, there are some small shifts. The company notes that requests for data on accounts was up 21 percent. Thanks to recent legislation, the company is also now able to disclose the existence of five national security letters, a notorious tool used by US law enforcement to quietly obtain information on individuals. For the first time, the company says, it’s also releasing information on requests related to intellectual property.

But one eye-popping statistic from the report stands out. According to…