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Be Careful - Government And Google Keeps An Eye On You

Thursday, 22 April 2010 18:28 Hiren Pathak

Everyone wants to cover their back when it comes to crime. Internet has become a major part of these new generation of crimes and attacks. This is where the sites like Google, Facebook, Youtube etc have to be careful about their privacy policies and the content that is generated by their users.

Governements from different coutries across the world are keeping an eye on such illegal activities on the internet and may frequently ask for information about users or request to remove content from sites like Google or other social networking sties.

Google has put up a page that will show different coutry's government requests for either user information or removal of content on thier map.

Looks like Indian government has requested user information for more than 1100 times in last one year and each request might include information for multiple users.

Here are the top 5 coutries for government requests..

Brazil

3663 data requests
291 removal requests
- 82.5% of removal requests fully or partially complied with.
- 21 Blogger (court order)
- 5 Blogger
- 4 Gmail (court order)
- 1 Google Suggest
- 99 orkut (court order)
- 119 orkut
- 9 Web Search (court order)
- 32 YouTube (court order)
- 1 YouTube

United States

3580 data requests
123 removal requests
- 80.5% of removal requests fully or partially complied with.
- 2 AdWords (court order)
- 1 AdWords
- 1 Apps (court order)
- 6 Blogger (court order)
- 6 Blogger
- 1 Book Search
- 1 Geo (except Street View)
- 1 Gmail (court order)
- 1 Google Video (court order)
- 4 Groups (court order)
- 1 Groups
- 1 orkut
- 2 Universal Search (court order)
- 20 Web Search (court order)
- 5 Web Search
- 7 YouTube (court order)
- 63 YouTube

United Kingdom

1166 data requests
59 removal requests
- 76.3% of removal requests fully or partially complied with.
- 1 AdWords
- 1 Blogger
- 1 Geo (except Street View)
- 1 Groups (court order)
- 1 Image Search (court order)
- 1 Image Search
- 8 Web Search (court order)
- 2 Web Search
- 43 YouTube

India

1061 data requests
142 removal requests
- 77.5% of removal requests fully or partially complied with.
- 2 Blogger
- 1 Book Search (court order)
- 2 Geo (except Street View)
- 119 orkut
- 1 SMS Channels
- 2 Web Search
- 15 YouTube

France

846 data requests
Less than 10 removal requests
- 66.7% of removal requests fully or partially complied with.

Check out the Google Government Request's map for more details.

So don't even think about doing anything illegal in your coutry. Be a good citizen.. will you? ;-)

Written By: Hiren Pathak. You can contact him at informationmadness AT gmail DOT COM
Our valuable member Hiren Pathak has been with us since Tuesday, 12 December 2006.