According to data released by Google, it is receiving by far the most requests for users' personal data from the US government, but global demand is steadily rising each year.
The search engine published the figures 23 January as part of its efforts for total transparency. The report reveals that the US leads the trend, with 8,438 requests for information about 14,791 users in the second half of 2012 -- India is a distant second, with 2,431 requests for information, followed by France, Germany, the UK and Brazil.
By: Liat Clark, Edited by: David Cornish
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/23/google-us-data-requests-increasing
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