• Google Transparency report: 70% rise in takedown requests from US government and law enforcement
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[release][img]http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2011/9/27/1317146622153/Google-office-007.jpg[/img][/release] [release]Google: US law enforcement tried to get videos removed from YouTube The technology giant's biannual transparency report reveals a 70% rise in takedown requests from US government or police Google faced down demands from a US law enforcement agency to take down YouTube videos [B]allegedly showing police brutality[/B] earlier this year, figures released for the first time show. The technology giant's biannual transparency report shows that Google refused the demands from the unnamed authority in the first half of this year. According to the report, [B]Google separately declined orders by other police authorities to remove videos that allegedly defamed law enforcement officials. [/B] The demands formed part of a 70% rise in takedown requests from the US government or police, and were revealed as part of an effort to highlight online censorship around the world. Figures revealed for the first time show that[B] the US demanded private information about more than 11,000 Google users between January and June this year[/B], almost equal to the number of requests made by 25 other developed countries, including the UK and Russia. [B]Governments around the world requested private data about 25,440 people in the first half of this year, with 11,057 of those people in the US.[/B] It is the first time Google has released details about how many of its users are targeted by authorities, as opposed to the number of requests made by countries. "For the first time, we're not only disclosing the number of requests for user data, but we're showing the number of users or accounts that are specified in those requests too," said Dorothy Chou, a senior policy analyst at Google. "We believe that providing this level of detail highlights the need to modernize laws like the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which regulates government access to user information and was written 25 years ago—long before the average person had ever heard of email." Brazil made the most content removal requests in the first half of this year, according to the report, followed by Germany, the US and South Korea. [/release] Source: [url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/25/google-transparency-report-released[/url] Report: [url]http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/[/url] From the link above: [img]http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/6912/takedown1.png[/img] [img]http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/3455/takedown2.png[/img] And this was before the Occupy Wall Street movement got momentum.. makes you wonder how many takedown requests they've sent the past month?
I love google
Wouldn't some of the stuff they complied with be considered freedom of speech? I noticed some "hate speeches" in the report as well.
What a surprise. US hasn't been about freedom for a long time now.
Lets spam videos about police brutality now.
That's a lot of badly made youtube poops.
[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;32973409]What a surprise. US hasn't been about freedom for a long time now.[/QUOTE] Lets only talk about how the US asked for this information, as opposed to the two top requesters: Brazil and Germany, also we should ignore the other high requesters: UK, Russia, and South Korea. fuck amerca
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25352599/Lolstralya.png[/img] Wow, I expected it to be higher. I mean, only 10 youtube takedown requests over six months?
Google should take over the world :v: They just seem so "not ass" as compared to other governments :3
[QUOTE=NorthernGate;32980378]Lets only talk about how the US asked for this information, as opposed to the two top requesters: Brazil and Germany, also we should ignore the other high requesters: UK, Russia, and South Korea. fuck amerca[/QUOTE] Yeah because if there are worse offenders you suddenly become better. Sure.
Hopefully this means a 70% rise in Google telling them to fuck off, also i hate how the law tries to cover it's dirty tracks and it's allowed to get away with it, it's like a criminal calling google and asking them to take down the video of him beating a shopkeeper senseless.
[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;32973409]What a surprise. US hasn't been about freedom for a long time now.[/QUOTE]When were we about freedom? Was it when black people had to sit at the back of the bus? Or maybe it was when we were putting the Japanese in internment camps? Perhaps it was when women weren't allowed to vote?
[IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3661087/googletranscanada.png[/IMG] Canada is pretty cool.
[QUOTE=Mingebox;32981094]When were we about freedom? Was it when black people had to sit at the back of the bus? Or maybe it was when we were putting the Japanese in internment camps? Perhaps it was when women weren't allowed to vote?[/QUOTE] But why do you always scream "land of free", "freedom", "I am a free American" and all that?
[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;32973409]What a surprise. US hasn't been about freedom for a long time now.[/QUOTE] I'm amazed by the number of wars we can fight to defend our freedom while it still halves yearly.
[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;32981129]But why do you always scream "land of free", "freedom", "I am a free American" and all that?[/QUOTE]Don't ask me, I only scream to ask who put empty cans in the sink.
[QUOTE=bobsmit;32981140]I'm amazed by the number of wars we can fight to defend our freedom while it still halves yearly.[/QUOTE]Do you really believe you are fighting war to defend your freedom? When was your freedom at risk? When 9/11 happened it was more of a safety risk, and with libya there was no danger to US at all. Freedom is only an excuse so people don't get furious. Imagine what shit would go down if they admitted they invaded for the sake of oil.
[QUOTE=TacticalBacon;32980816][img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25352599/Lolstralya.png[/img] Wow, I expected it to be higher. I mean, only 10 youtube takedown requests over six months?[/QUOTE] We banned excessive takedown requests. Next year we'll ban banning excessive takedown requests, so it will even out.
[QUOTE=TacticalBacon;32980816][img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25352599/Lolstralya.png[/img] Wow, I expected it to be higher. I mean, only 10 youtube takedown requests over six months?[/QUOTE] They wanted to take down more but they kept getting timed out because of our internet and gave up.
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[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;32980967]Yeah because if there are worse offenders you suddenly become better. Sure.[/QUOTE] Yeah because singling out one country to point and call names when other countries are behaving worse to make a point makes sense. Sure.
The reality of my country's situation is slowly starting to set in, how depressing :(
[QUOTE=NorthernGate;32987616]Yeah because singling out one country to point and call names when other countries are behaving worse to make a point makes sense. Sure.[/QUOTE]Should we not call someone a murderer if he kills one person while there are serial killers who kill dozens? Just because someone does a worse crime does not nullify yours.
wow am i happy to live in the netherlands.
[QUOTE=Medevilae;32980612]Tiny Norway has about double that of the US. [IMG]http://i55.tinypic.com/10ymlg9.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] That's an interesting notation. Norway sent fewer requests (only 2) but had more items listed in both, verus the US's 757 items spread over 92 requests. I'm not sure what's worse, really. Note however that the US requested almost as much private user data as all the other countries combined - [I]that[/I] is of great concern.
[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;32988169]Should we not call someone a murderer if he kills one person while there are serial killers who kill dozens? Just because someone does a worse crime does not nullify yours.[/QUOTE] It's just that you're singling them out obviously showing a clear sign of hate to the US specifically. Which you really should not do as this leads to flame wars and long strung out debates based around topics which aren't relevant to the subject at hand.
[QUOTE=demoguy08;32988613]That's an interesting notation. Norway sent fewer requests (only 2) but had more items listed in both, verus the US's 757 items spread over 92 requests. I'm not sure what's worse, really. Note however that the US requested almost as much private user data as all the other countries combined - [I]that[/I] is of great concern.[/QUOTE] There is a pretty simple explanation for that. (the numbers from Norway i mean...) This was quoted from the observations on removal requests: "Two requests resulted in the removal of 1814 items from AdWords for violating Norwegian marketing laws."
[QUOTE=Sir Killalot;32988798]There is a pretty simple explanation for that. (the numbers from Norway i mean...) This was quoted from the observations on removal requests: "Two requests resulted in the removal of 1814 items from AdWords for violating Norwegian marketing laws."[/QUOTE] We need to think of the poor starving marketing companies!
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