Government Demands For Google User Data Skyrocket

According to Google's latest transparency report, worldwide government requests for Google's users data have gone up one hundred and fifty percent in the past five years

Government requests for user information -- such as registration information, emails and IP addresses -- are up 15 percent in the first half of 2014, and up 150 percent since the report was first published in 2009. In the US, government requests for user data are up 19 percent and 250 percent, respectively. In total, Google received 31,698 government requests for user information during the first half of this year, and it complied -- either in part or whole -- with 65 percent of those requests.

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