UK Government ranks 3rd in the world and 1st in Europe for..

UK Government ranks 3rd in the world and 1st in Europe for..

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amir_j

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3,579 posts

202 months

Thursday 22nd April 2010
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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_...




Spiritual_Beggar

4,833 posts

195 months

Thursday 22nd April 2010
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it is for ze good of ze Motherland, Commrade!

ninja-lewis

4,250 posts

191 months

Thursday 22nd April 2010
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Would that include the BBC asking Youtube to remove videos on copyright grounds? I can imagine that would bump it up a lot.

TankRizzo

7,285 posts

194 months

Thursday 22nd April 2010
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Hmm...I wonder what the other data requests were that weren't removal requests?

Tinfoil hat on!

Sheets Tabuer

19,050 posts

216 months

Thursday 22nd April 2010
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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.

Not entirely sure why as you could drive past anyway.

anonymous-user

55 months

Thursday 22nd April 2010
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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.

SmoothRB

1,700 posts

173 months

Thursday 22nd April 2010
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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.

foilist

101 posts

169 months

Thursday 22nd April 2010
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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).

Yeast Lord

329 posts

170 months

Thursday 22nd April 2010
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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.

Not entirely sure why as you could drive past anyway.
Yes you could drive past it however the government is not aware of this obviously.