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November 14, 2012 05:34 am GMT
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Government Surveillance Is on the Rise, Says Google
Google released its sixth Transparency Report on Tuesday, showing what it believes is a clear trend: around the world, government requests for user data is on the upswing.
"As you can see from the graph below, government demands for user data have increased steadily since we first launched the Transparency Report," wrote Dorothy Chou, senior policy analyst at Google, in a blog post. "In the first half of 2012, there were 20,938 inquiries from government entities around the world. Those requests were for information about 34,614 accounts."
Government requests for Google to remove content rose dramatically over the past six months, too. "In the first half of 2012, there were 1,7…
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