Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Google Internet censorship on the rise


Google announced through its periodic report, which describes the latest statistics of government controls over the Internet, and issued the "Google of transparency", that censorship on the Internet continues to rise, and that the company receives more requests from governments in order to send them data of specific persons.

The report pointed out that the official number of applications received by Google during the first half of this year reached 20938 request from various governments all over the world, and these requests belong 34614 account of users of Google services. This number increases by 67% the number announced by Google in the second half of 2009, which was the first number to be announced directly.

And tops the list of the United States of America in terms of the number of applications which equals 209 request during the period covered in the report. Germany, Brazil, Turkey, and France also dozens of applications.

At the same time Google received a large number of requests to remove links, video, or other content for their services. He had averaged about a thousand applications for every six months of the last three years, while the number of applications in the first half of this year to 1791 a request from governments around the world. The company said that these requests affect 17746 item of their own content.

Said "Dorothy Zhou" the official Google blog that this information is not disclosed to only a small handful of the information requested by the governments of the many Internet networks, and also represents the bulk of these breaches of those requests to the telecommunications companies, which did not know about any details. She added that many companies in the past year had begun to disclose these numbers like Drop Box, Linked In, and Twitter, and this is desirable and promising.

Noteworthy that Google is working hard with government institutions to control the flow of personal information and breach of user privacy for any reason, and is trying to reduce these violations.
Commission Robotics

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