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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_...
Bandit said:
There's probably 250 civil servants employed now to scour Google all day at £50k a pop...so they better try and look like they're doing something.
Exactly.Government, beurocracy etc...their first priority to to justify their existence, normally with more rules, regulations etc.
It would be intersting to see a breakdown of the figures to see what number of requests were say, due to court orders and what were say, due to the 'paedo panic' that often seems to grip the UK (that resulted in a father not being able to photograph his own child in a playground recently).
Sheets Tabuer said:
TankRizzo said:
Hmm...I wonder what the other data requests were that weren't removal requests?
Tinfoil hat on!
Google street view of army bases etc.Tinfoil hat on!
Not entirely sure why as you could drive past anyway.
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