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| Subject: PREDATORY STATISTS: Rise in OZschwitz government requests for surfs' data Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:09 pm | |
| Google has reported a "steady increase" in government requests to hand over data from internet users in the second half of 2012.
The web giant's semi-annual "Transparency Report" showed 584 requests for information by Australian authorities from 711 users in the second half of 2012.
This is up from 523 requests from 841 accounts in the first six months of 2012. The first "Transparency Report" in 2009 showed only 155 requests for user data by Australian authorities.
The most requests came from the United States, with 8438 requests for information about 14,868 users. Advertisement
India was second with 2431 requests for data about 4106 users, followed by France, where Google received 1693 requests for information about 2063 users. Germany, Britain and Brazil rounded out the top six, Google said. Australia was ranked eighth.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/consumer-security/rise-in-australian-government-requests-for-data-20130125-2dayb.html#ixzz2Ix9TWzJQ
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