Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Google, YouTube Received 10,000 Government Requests for User Data


and the Google-owned YouTube received more than 10,000 requests for user data from government agencies in the six months ending Dec. 31, 2009, according to newly released data.

"Like other technology and communications companies, we regularly receive requests from government agencies around the world to remove content from our services, or provide information about users of our services and products," Google says on a new site that sheds more light onto government demands for user information and requests to take offensive material off the Web.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/194651/google_youtube_received_10000_government_requests_for_user_data.html

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