Googles Transparency report - shhhh dont tell any one...

By : Administrator
Published 22nd September 2010

If you are stat mad or in love with goverment conspiracy theories, you'll love this one

Googles released what it calls its "transparency report", so you can choose a country and see how many govt requests there were on information about users. They also offer raw stats for their traffic usage.

Heres the UK report for the last 6 months.

United Kingdom
1343 data requests
48 removal requests, for a total of 232 items
62.5% of removal requests fully or partially complied with

* Blogger
o 1 court orders to remove content
o 1 items requested to be removed
* Video
o 3 court orders to remove content
o 32 items requested to be removed
* Groups
o 1 court orders to remove content
o 1 items requested to be removed
* Web Search
o 8 court orders to remove content
o 144 items requested to be removed
* YouTube
o 6 court orders to remove content
o 29 non-court order requests to remove content
o 54 items requested to be removed

Feel like a secret agent

Google Transparency Report: Government Requests

Steve Richardson
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