Thursday, April 22, 2010

Google Rolls Out "Governmental Requests" Service

If you wish to get a sneak preview of censorship and filtering requests Google had been receiving from different parts of the world, then read on.


Google had rolled out a new service called "Government Requests", which lists out statistics from different governmental agencies around the world all the way from, requests to pull down a service, removing content from Youtube, Blogger, Orkut; Data Requests etc. However Google itself agrees that the list provided through this service is not a comprehensive one, but they had tried their best possible to get the figures available to public. You can find statistics for most countries except from ones like China, which considers the requests itself as National secrets.


You can visit the service at http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/ 



No comments: