How's Australia running in the government spying & censorship stakes out on the Google digital race track?
Google Transparency Report's latest 2010 numbers crunch to show only the USA, Brazil, India, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Spain have more government requests for info on digital citizens than Oz.
Unlike the second half of last year, an Oz guvmint hasn't yet requested the disappearing of a blog.
Australia January to June 2010:
200 data requests
14 removal requests, for a total of 639 items
92.9% of removal requests fully or partially complied with
- Geo (except Street View)
- 1 non-court order requests to remove content
- 1 items requested to be removed
- Web Search
- 7 court orders to remove content
- 316 items requested to be removed
- YouTube
- 2 court orders to remove content
- 2 non-court order requests to remove content
- 7 items requested to be removed
- Groups
- 1 court orders to remove content
- 314 items requested to be removed
- Gmail
- 1 non-court order requests to remove content
- 1 items requested to be removed
Google's Australian traffic from 1st January to 20th September 2010:
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