[Infographic] Google Pulls Back the Curtain on Secret Government Information Requests
The US government makes lots of FISA requests and Google is fighting to reveal the true extent of the government prying.
Google’s Director for information security and law enforcement matters, Richard Salgado, recently laid bare the extent of government requests for information from the company. Google has been sharing data about governments requesting the data it holds since 2010 as a part of its transparency report.
According to Salgado, Google can’t release statistics on the requests from the US government because they are Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act requests. A selection of graphs reveal the frequency of requests, of which the US makes more of than the next six countries in the top ten, combined.
Most conspicuous of the graphs is one that is completely blacked out, as if it were a redacted excerpt from a secret government file.
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