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Google faced down demands from a US law enforcement agency to take down
YouTube
videos allegedly showing police brutality 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, Google separately declined orders by other police
authorities to remove videos that allegedly defamed law enforcement
officials.
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 the US demanded private
information about more than 11,000 Google users between January and June
this
year, almost equal to the number of requests made by 25 other developed
countries, including the UK and Russia.
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.
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.
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Google asked to remove 135 YouTube videos for 'UK national security issues'
British police authorities ordered the removal of 135 videos from YouTube in
the first half of this year because of a perceived threat to national
security,
according to figures published by the video sharing website's owner Google.
The US technology giant reported a 71% rise in content removal requests from
the UK government or police, compared with the final half of 2010, with
almost
200 YouTube videos requested to be taken down following complaints about
privacy, security or hate speech.
Google revealed the figures in its biannual transparency report, part of an
effort to highlight online censorship across the world.
The report shows that private information about 1,443 British users or
accounts
was demanded by law enforcement agencies between January and June this year.
It
is the first time Google has revealed how many users the data requests
relate
to.
Google received 1,273 overall requests for user data in the period, compared
with 1,162 requests for information in the second half of 2010.
The UK government made 65 content removal requests from all of Google's
products in the six months to June, up from 38 requests in the previous half
year.
Fears over national security saw take down requests for 135 videos from
YouTube,
with a further 62 for privacy, security or hate speech issues.
Almost 30 items were requested to be removed from Google search after two
court
orders relating to privacy and security, the report shows, with 14 items
because of defamation issues.
Google said it fully or partially complied with 82% of requests from the UK
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