Google Reports Rise In Government Take Down Notices

Emma Woolacott reporting at Forbes: Google’s latest Transparency Report shows that it received 3,846 government requests to remove content from its services – 68 percent up over the second half of 2012. Of these, three percent were overtly related to government criticism, with Google complying with fewer than a third. “Over the past four years, one worrying trend has remained consistent: governments continue to ask us to remove political content,” says the company’s legal director, Susan Infantino, in a blog...
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