Google’s latest Transparency Report sets more records in government request numbers

Google has included the information from the main portion of 2016 to its progressing Transparency Report page, and the progressions are practically what you'd expect: more demands. Some negligible, some genuine, some top mystery.

Demands for client data hopped to a record aggregate of 44,943 (up from the past six months' 40,677), with the U.S. standing out, of course, with 30,123 of those — second place goes to Germany, then France a removed third, with India and the U.K. at her heels.

New to the board: Algeria, Belarus, Cayman Islands, El Salvador, Fiji and Saudi Arabia. Welcome! None delivered more than a modest bunch of solicitations, however.
A normal of 64 percent of those solicitations were truly, however Google doesn't (and much of the time can't) give points of interest of which records and information were asked.

The insights for substance expulsion solicitations are more point by point, yet that information is still from late 2015; I'm certain we can expect redesigned numbers there soon.

Richard Salgado, the organization's chief of law requirement and data security, noted in a blog entry that a solitary National Security Letter was made open, changing the quantities of NSLs got in the second 50% of 2015: what was once 0-499 is presently 1-499. Smells like opportunity!

Then again, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act asks for expanded in the same time frame, to some place north of 21,000 — impressively more than the year's first half, which had around 16,000. We won't know 2016's numbers for some time, as there's an obligatory six-month delay on reporting them. It's been a pretty much persistent move since 2009, so don't anticipate that the numbers will go down, or on the off chance that they do, not by much.