Google reports government monitoring requirements continue to rise

A new report from Google shows the total number of requests for government information from around the world since the second half of 2009 rose by nearly 50%.

Google's transparency report, at the request of the Government in the past three years, jumped significantly.

According to Google, there are 20,938 governmental entities from around the world in the first half of 2012, about 34,614 account information, such as query. From the beginning of the second half of 2009, when the number of requests Google received 12,539 complaints from governments around the world is an important rate hike.

This is the sixth time we have released these data, a trend has been very clear: the supervision of the government is on the rise, the Google blog, senior policy analyst Dorothy weeks.

When it comes to the information request, the United States is far and away the leader in the package. In fact, FBI requirements, in order to gain access to the Gmail account Broadwell-1 woman sex scandal centers, caused by the resignation of former CIA director David Petraeus, is just 7,969 requests Google received from one of the United States in the first half of this year.

After the U.S., India, Brazil (1,566) and France (1,546) (2,319) rounded out the top four countries requesting data.

According to Google, the company part or in full compliance with the requirements of 90%, roughly the same percentage of Google to comply with the 93% of the 6,321 requests in 2011, when half of the U.S. officials.

Google also sent a large number of requirements deleted from the U.S. government and the courts, in the first half of this year, including 5 of the request and the court has taken criticism from of seven YouTube video, local and national government agencies, law enforcement or government officials. Google said, in response to these requests, it does not delete any content.

The company also received a court order to a group of related cases, defamation, and the person's family removed from Google 1,754 jobs, and delete the post 1664 results.

The other removable request, including three of the court order, remove 641 search results link to sites accused of defamation organizations and individuals. Two hundred 33 search results were removed.

"The number of the government's request to remove content from our services, roughly flat from 2009 to 2011," Zhou said. "But it soared during the reporting period in the first half of 2012, there were 1,791 government officials from around the world, called for the deletion of 17,746 pieces of content."

We disclose the information is just an isolated sliver government how to interact with the Internet, because in most cases, we do not know what other technology or telecommunications company making the request, "Zhou wrote. "But we are pleased, Dropbox, LinkedIn, Sonic.net and Twitter in the past year, more companies have begun to share their statistics, our hope is that, as time goes on, more and more The data will strengthen public debate and how we can best maintain a free and open Internet. "