Posted on Wednesday, June 29 2011 @ 20:55 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Google has updated its list of government surveillance and takedown requests, you can check out the data
over here.
The page is updated every six months.
Google continued to demonstrate its commitment to transparency on Monday by releasing fresh statistics on the number of times it has disclosed private user data to a government, or removed content at government request. The country-by-country report covers the second half of 2010.
During that period, the United States was the top requester of user information (4,601 requests), while Brazil was the leader in takedowns, with 263 requests leading to the removal of 12,363 items.
Source: ARS Technica
