Google faces more government demands for user information

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Source: Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO—Google is dealing with more government demands to turn over information about its users as more people immerse themselves online.
The mounting pressure on the Internet search leader emerged in a statistical snapshot that Google Inc. released Tuesday of its dealings with authorities around the world. Google provided a country-by-country capsule of its legal sparring with authorities during the first six months of the year.
This is the fourth time Google has disclosed a six-month summary of government requests since it started reporting the numbers last year following a high-profile showdown with China's communist government over online censorship. In Tuesday's update, Google included the total number of user accounts targeted, instead of just the number of requests made by police, prosecutors, courts and other agencies at all levels of government worldwide.
Google received more than 15,600 requests for user data in January through June period, 10 percent more than during the final six months of last year. The requests in the latest period spanned more than 25,400 individual accounts worldwide—a tiny fraction of Google's more than billion users.
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[DeSwiss]

1. K&R

We've always been at war with Eastasia.

[spin]

2. We are turning into a society as portrayed in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four ...

I feel sorry for my grandchildren.

Soon I will be afraid to post such comments on DU.

[Michigan-Arizona]

3. I so agree with all what you said!

With all that has been happening & will continue to happen I can't imagine what thing's will be like when they grow up. I so fear for the younger one. Very scary times indeed.

[FrodosPet]

4. They are following 0.00254% of Googlers worldwide

I wonder what the percentage of DUers would be? 5%? 10%?

Chilling.