Saturday, October 29, 2011

US Officials Tried to Pull Videos From YouTube

Google released data tracking government efforts to have videos taken down from YouTube. (photo: Hürriyet Daily News)

Josh Halliday, Guardian UK
Halliday reports: "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."
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