Brazil, Germany, US top list of Google user data requests
Found on Ars Technica on Tuesday, 20 April 2010
The American Civil Liberties Union is applauding Google's latest information service: a database and map of nations that have either asked the company to delete content from one of its features or forward them details about Google users.
Google has provided a useful general overview of the requests, which the company received from government law enforcement agencies from July 1 through December 31 of last year.
Chinese officials censor their censorship demands, classifying them as state secrets, "so we cannot disclose that information at this time," Google explains.
There's a little more censorship going on than you think. Even though China and Australia hit the news almost daily, other countries are very active in the same field. One cannot criticize censorship while using it at the same time; not even when it complies with the law, because if you think about it, the much hated firewall of China is also justified by chinese laws.