Google fielded more than 1,000 requests to take down online...
Google fielded more than 1,000 requests to take down online content in the second half of 2011, the company said in its latest transparency report (http://xrl.us/bnb5h2). They include 467 court orders and 561 requests from governments and others, the company…
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said. The company started releasing the reports in 2010. In the U.S., Google received 117 court orders and it complied with about 40 percent of them, it said. Of the 70 requests from governments, police and other sources, its compliance rate was 44 percent, it said. The number of content removal requests in the U.S. increased 103 percent over the first half of 2011, it said. Among requests for removal was one from the Canadian passport office to “remove a YouTube video of a Canadian citizen urinating on his passport and flushing it down a toilet.” Google did not comply, it said. Overall, Google complied with 65 percent of the court orders and 47 percent of the “more informal requests,” Dorothy Chou, Google senior policy analyst, said in a blog posting.