Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Britain Heads Google’s European Censorship List

Google says it decided to make the figures available in the interests of transparency

From Times Online:

The British Government made more requests for content to be removed from Google last year than any other country in Europe, according to figures released by the company today.

Between July and December last year, Google received 1,166 data requests from British government agencies, of which 59 were requests for content to be removed. Google complied with 76.3 per cent of the removal requests.

France made 846 data requests, but fewer than ten removal requests, of which 66.7 per cent were successful.

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