Google reveals statistics on government requests of its data
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Re: Google reveals statistics on government requests of its data
#2Clicking on China is interesting. I had no idea the Chinese government considered these things to be 'state secrets'. The data Google posted here isn't even information on what exactly was removed / requested. It's only broad stroke information - How many requests - how often there was compliance - what time of content was requested removed.
I wonder if this information for China were released if there would be much outrage... I can imagine:
-Outrage with Google for how often they complied
-Outrage at China for the sheer number of requests
-Outrage at China for the types of content removed
All in all, releasing that information would probably hurt Google far more than it would hurt China.
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#3Ha, Brasil is first. A friend of mine was the admin contact for the .br domain for a large internet company. When he went back to Brazil on a visit, he was summoned to the police station for questioning (!!) over some stolen credit cards that had been used on the site.
The law is pretty strict there about ownership and responsibility for what goes on on your servers.
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#4This is a bit unrelated, but does anyone know how google manages to make those three pages load without showing the refresh flash? It doesn't look like they are being loaded via AJAX so I can't figure it out...
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#5Maybe Google is gradually becoming the rebel it always claimed to be. Easier being a rebel if you're part of the system.
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#6Love the detailed stats for removal requests, but I'm more interested in data requests.
How often are they complied with, and what data did they want? On what grounds?
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#9Love the detailed stats for removal requests, but I'm more interested in data requests. How often are they complied with, and what data did they want? On what grounds?
Related: Yahoo issued a takedown request when their guidelines and price sheet for "data requests" leaked in 2009:
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#10Iran is not on the list.
Possibly they requested to be removed.