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Britain heads Google’s European censorship list
The British Government made more requests for content to be removed from Google last year than any other country in Europe, according to figures released by the company today.
Between July and December last year, Google received 1,166 data requests from British government agencies, of which 59 were requests for content to be removed. Google complied with 76.3 per cent of the removal requests.
France made 846 data requests, but fewer than ten removal requests, of which 66.7 per cent were successful.
Globally, Britain ranks third in terms of data requests, behind Brazil (3,663) and the United States (3,580), although figures for China, where Google faced heavy censorship until withdrawing earlier this year, are unavailable.
David Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer,...“Government censorship of the web is growing rapidly: from the outright blocking and filtering of sites, to court orders limiting access to information and legislation forcing companies to self-censor content,” he said.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_...
The British Government made more requests for content to be removed from Google last year than any other country in Europe, according to figures released by the company today.
Between July and December last year, Google received 1,166 data requests from British government agencies, of which 59 were requests for content to be removed. Google complied with 76.3 per cent of the removal requests.
France made 846 data requests, but fewer than ten removal requests, of which 66.7 per cent were successful.
Globally, Britain ranks third in terms of data requests, behind Brazil (3,663) and the United States (3,580), although figures for China, where Google faced heavy censorship until withdrawing earlier this year, are unavailable.
David Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer,...“Government censorship of the web is growing rapidly: from the outright blocking and filtering of sites, to court orders limiting access to information and legislation forcing companies to self-censor content,” he said.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_...
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