From July to December of 2012, Google received a record number of content removal requests, both from the United States government and countries such as Russia and Brazil.
In a transparency report issued today, Google’s legal director, Susan Infantino, noted that 2,285 government requests were issued in the second half of last year, up steeply from 1,811 requests in the six months prior. This is the seventh transparency report released by Google, Infantino added.
As we’ve gathered and released more data over time, it’s become increasingly clear that the scope of government attempts to censor content on Google services has grown,
Infantino wrote in the report. In more places than ever, we’ve been asked by governments to remove political content that people post on our services. In this particular time period, we received court orders in several countries to remove blog posts criticizing government officials or their associates
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
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