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The U.S. Government Is Increasingly Hungry for Google's User Data

by Felix Richter, 28.01.2013

This chart shows the number of Google user data requests filed by the U.S. government.

Google published its latest Transparency Report last week, revealing another increase in user data requests from governments around the world.
U.S. authorities were particularly hungry for Google�s user data, with 39 percent of global requests coming from entities of the U.S. government.

The number of user data requests filed by U.S. authorities has steeply increased over the past three years: In the second half of 2012, Google received 8,438 requests from U.S. entities, more than twice as many as three years ago, when Google started sharing this information with the public.

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