Google: Government Snooping 'On the Rise'
“Government surveillance is on the rise,” Google proclaimed in a blog post pointing to its latest semiannual Transparency Report on the efforts of world governments to compel the company to remove content or hand over individual information.
“Government surveillance is on the rise,” Google proclaimed in a blog post pointing to its latest semiannual Transparency Report on the efforts of world governments to compel the company to remove content or hand over individual information.
In the first half of 2012, the company received 20,938 inquiries — up from 18,257 in the previous six-month period — from government entities around the world. The requests related to 34,614 accounts. Requests to remove content rose 71 percent in the reporting period to 1,791.
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