[LINK] Government requests for personal private records

[Jim Birch]

In Russia, it's the other way around: Government records are given to the
mafia upon request.


On 27 March 2013 04:08, <stephen at melbpc.org.au> wrote:

> MARCH 21, 2013 | BY KATITZA RODRIGUEZ
>
> www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/visualizing-google-transparency-report-part-3
>
> (Quote..)
>
> "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
>
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