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12-02-2012, 12:08 AM
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/google-user-data-report/
According to the report, the United States’ demand for user data from Google continued to increase this year, with law enforcement agencies nationwide submitting requests 7,969 times for the first six months of the year, Google revealed Wednesday.
The jump, from 6,321 demands for data during the previous six-month period, covered 16,281 user accounts compared to 12,243 accounts from the company’s previous Transparency Report.
Google, which offers e-mail, cloud storage, a blogging platform, web search, and other services, has released a Transparency Report every six months since 2009. The reports provide information on requests for data from governments around the world, as well as on takedown requests submitted to Google’s various services for suspected copyright infringement, defamation and other reasons.
Of the 31 nation’s surveyed, the U.S. led the pack in requests for user data. India came in second with 2,319 requests for data on 3,467 accounts. The United Kingdom, Brazil, France and Germany each made roughly 1,500 requests.
Overall globally, the number of requests have skyrocketed from 12,539 at the end of 2009, when Google first began producing the reports, to 20,938 in the latest reporting period.
“This is the sixth time we’ve released this data, and one trend has become clear: Government surveillance is on the rise,” Google said in a statement.
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According to the report, the United States’ demand for user data from Google continued to increase this year, with law enforcement agencies nationwide submitting requests 7,969 times for the first six months of the year, Google revealed Wednesday.
The jump, from 6,321 demands for data during the previous six-month period, covered 16,281 user accounts compared to 12,243 accounts from the company’s previous Transparency Report.
Google, which offers e-mail, cloud storage, a blogging platform, web search, and other services, has released a Transparency Report every six months since 2009. The reports provide information on requests for data from governments around the world, as well as on takedown requests submitted to Google’s various services for suspected copyright infringement, defamation and other reasons.
Of the 31 nation’s surveyed, the U.S. led the pack in requests for user data. India came in second with 2,319 requests for data on 3,467 accounts. The United Kingdom, Brazil, France and Germany each made roughly 1,500 requests.
Overall globally, the number of requests have skyrocketed from 12,539 at the end of 2009, when Google first began producing the reports, to 20,938 in the latest reporting period.
“This is the sixth time we’ve released this data, and one trend has become clear: Government surveillance is on the rise,” Google said in a statement.
more at link