google's government requests tracker

[rtil]

http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/

now you can see which governments requested how many items to be removed from google services and how many times they requested data (except china of course). this includes court orders, and although they don't mention types of data it's assumed that it's usually account login information or something similar.

they also said they're working on a tool to show which countries actually block specific google services.

oh and if you see something called "orkut", that's google's social networking site. and i don't think anyone really uses it except people in brazil.

[Shida]

That's pretty neat. It's kinda interesting that Brazil would be next in line for both data requests and removals (I'm assuming that China, given its record so far, is actually the top), but that might be because I don't quite understand the political system over there.

I'm worried about the number of data requests from the UK though - its disproportionately high for the size of the place...

[Kött]

Germany? You cunts!

[Fuzz]

I love that China is just a big red question mark.