Google: U.S. Government Won’t Let Us Share All Of Their Data Requests
By Agence France-Presse
Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:33 EST
Google said Thursday the number of requests for user data from governments and law enforcement has doubled since 2010, as it renewed a push to reveal more about US demands.
In its updated “transparency report” covering the first six months of 2013, the tech giant said the largest number of requests — 10,918 — came from the United States.
That accounted for more than a third of the 25,879 requests Google received worldwide.
The California Internet company renewed its argument for the ability to reveal more about US national security requests, disclosures of which must be lumped in with law enforcement inquiries.
“We believe it’s your right to know what kinds of requests and how many each government is making of us and other companies,” Google’s legal director Richard Salgado said in a blog posting.
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