[LINK] Government requests for personal private records

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

MARCH 21, 2013 | BY KATITZA RODRIGUEZ

www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/visualizing-google-transparency-report-part-3

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"Visualizing Google's Transparency Report, Part 3: What Countries Ask For 
The Biggest Share of Netizen Data?"

Google's Transparency Report gives the country-by-country statistics on the 
state requests it receives for personal private records. 

Below, EFF and SHARE Defense ranked the top countries requesting (personal 
private record) data — not by the total numbers of requests, but, by how 
many accounts are requested relative to the total number of Internet users 
in each country. 

We believe this chart is fairer for countries that have a large Internet 
user population, but who make a smaller percentage of surveillance 
requests. These results are not a perfect measure, but we can still see the 
disproportionate activities of some nations who make relatively relative 
high numbers of data requests ... (/quote)


At the above website, follows here is a graphic of the results. Of the 31 
countries thus examined. Australia is seventh in terms of the governmental 
requests for personal private records from Google. That is on an estimated 
19 million net users, Google has had 2,460 Australian government requests for information
on Australians.  (For the period Jan 2011 and to Dec 2012)

America has the most, China is midway (15th), and Canada, Japan and Russia
ask Google the least about their citizens, according to the data presented.

 
Cheers,
Stephen