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Scotty Starnes posted: "Google leaves out the fact that they also spy
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Government Spying and Censorship Exploding Under
Obama<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/google-government-spying-and-censorship-exploding-under-obama/>
by
Scotty Starnes <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/>
Google leaves out the fact that they also
spy<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/google-accused-again-of-spying-on-gmail-users/>and
spy
for the government
<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/google-twitter-and-facebook-spies-for-the-government/>on
individuals worldwide.
>From
>GoogleBlog<http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/transparency-report-government-requests.html>
:
We think it’s important to shine a light on how government actions could
affect our users. When we first launched the Transparency
Report<http://www.google.com/transparencyreport> in
early 2010, there wasn’t much data out there about how governments
sometimes hamper the free flow of information on the web. So we took our
first step toward greater transparency by disclosing the number of
government requests we received. At the time, we weren’t sure how things
would look beyond that first snapshot, so we pledged to release numbers
twice a year. Today we’re updating the Transparency Report with data about
government requests from January to June 2012.
This is the sixth time we’ve released this data, and one trend has become
clear: Government surveillance is on the rise. As you can see from the
graph below, government demands for user data have increased steadily since
we first launched the Transparency Report. 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.
<http://scottystarnes.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/user-data.png>
The number of government requests to remove content from our services was
largely flat from 2009 to 2011. But it’s spiked in this reporting period.
In the first half of 2012, there were 1,791 requests from government
officials around the world to remove 17,746 pieces of content.
<http://scottystarnes.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/remove-content.png>
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reading>>><http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/transparency-report-government-requests.html>
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