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Transit encryption requires that both sides are game. Google always supports it, but the server on the other side may not.

The NPR chart may also be misleading; it's unclear from the notes. There was ~60% inflation between 1992 and 2011.

A salient bit: [Eric] Grosse echoed comments from other Google officials, saying that the company resists government surveillance and has never weakened its encryption systems to m…

Re: maps, you can revert to "classic" by clicking on the gear.

If you're asking about NSLs to Google, you can see the ranges on this page: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/US... These aren't aggregated into the counts …

Warning: article written by Jonah Lehrer. It's probably still a good read, but that spoils it for me.

Yes, there are 20% projects.

I'm not sure if I can assuage your anger, but the Transparency Report is upfront that there are reasons not all requests for user data are disclosed. The data isn't purported to be…

See: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/faq/#do_the... http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/faq/#how_do...

Here's the Google Transparency Report page that features ongoing developments involving this disruption: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/disruptions... (This page …

"Other" is as compared to search warrants and subpoenas, i.e. it's describing the vehicle of the request rather than the reason for the request. It's defined, loosely, in a tooltip…

Google's blog post: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/transparency-report-w...

Khan Academy has a pretty good series of introductory videos: http://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics

That punishes users of Google search who want to find these titles.

The data is fairly close to realtime, with caveats. The time series chart widget is a little dodgy, though, so it's sometimes difficult to see things on the margin. We're working o…