Google has received “more governmental removal requests than...
Google has received “more governmental removal requests than ever before,” the company said when announcing its most recent Transparency Report (http://bit.ly/11HiGDV). In the second half of last year, Google “received 2,285 government requests to remove 24,179 pieces of content --…
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an increase from the 1,811 requests to remove 18,070 pieces of content that we received during the first half of 2012,” Legal Director Susan Infantino wrote. Infantino said more countries requested the takedown of political content. “In this particular time period, we received court orders in several countries to remove blog posts criticizing government officials or their associates,” she wrote.