Government surveillance of citizens rising

Because the Mozu of David Petraeus scandal continues to burn, the latest Google Transparency Report shows government surveillance began to heat up.

"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," Dorothy the week senior policy analyst explains, Google's blog.

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From around the world from January to June this year, the requirements of the Government with Google to filed the 20,93934,614 accounts data access. In the same time frame last year, according to company data, government accounts 25,34215,744 request.
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Most governments in 2012, the first six months of the request by the United States, followed by India, Brazil and France.

16,281 7,969 requests in the United States to obtain information on the account, a Gmail account, personal insurance, Broadwell communication and Petraeus in their romance. Google said it fully or partially complied with 90% of these cases. In contrast, in the first half of 2011, Google sent 11,0575,950 request on the account.

Google also recorded a rise in the government's request, called for the deletion of the content or materials, due to security risks or defamatory.

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"The number of the government's request to remove content from our services, roughly in balance, but soared during the reporting period 2009-2011," Zhou said. "In the first half of 2012, 17,746 pieces of content removal request of government officials from around the world in 1791," in the same period last year, only 949 requirements.

Check out the transparency of the report itself, which has been translated into 40 different languages​​, to see the country's national development trends. However, according to Zhou, the "total around the world, these numbers continue to go up."