Google Report Shows Governments Want More Private Data

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Google Report Shows Governments Want More Private Data

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @05:31AM from the hungry-hungry-government dept.

judgecorp writes "The latest Google Transparency Report, which tallies the number of times personal data is requested from Google, shows that governments are becoming more inquisitive than ever. Requests for user data have gone up by 70 percent since Google started these reports in 2009 — but the report shows Google is getting better at saying no: in 2009 it complied — fully or partially — with 76 percent of requests, and that figure is now down to 66 percent." This report is the first to feature requests broken down by the legal process used.

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better at saying no? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-23 05:38 · Score: 5, Insightful

More like governments are overreaching asking for data they have no legal right to than ever before.
1. Re:better at saying no? by Runaway1956 · 2013-01-23 06:37 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  Patriot Act, dude. Gubbermint wrote themselves a blank check with that one. And, they've written more blank checks since then. Everything the Buggermint - I mean GUBBERMINT! wants is "legal". Don't confuse "legal" with "moral", or "ethical", or "right". If the buggerers in gubbermint ever figures out that something they want is illegal, they'll just write some new laws!
  
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Little math here by DJ+Jones · 2013-01-23 05:39 · Score: 4, Insightful

If the requests went up by 70% and the the amount of "no"s dropped by 20%. They are not "getting better at saying no" on a raw numerical basis.

Think about it.
Pity by captbob2002 · 2013-01-23 05:43 · Score: 4, Insightful

Pity that Google even has user's private data to give to governments
1. Re:Pity by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-23 06:05 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  If you didn't give them private data. They don't have it.
  Nobody to blame but yourself.
  (captcha:blamable That is so weird.)