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Turkish Government Logs Most Requests for Content Removal
January 30, 2013
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Following is a table detailing the number of times law-enforcement officials requested content to be removed from Google services* in the 1st half of 2012, according to Google.
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1st half 2nd half 6 Month % 1st half% of total
2012 2011 Change 2011 requests
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Total 903 710 27.2% 615 100.0%
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Argentina 24 46 -47.8% 21 2.7%
Armenia 0 n/a n/a n/a 0.0%
Australia 18 17 5.9% 10 2.0%
Austria 2 4 -50.0% n/a 0.2%
Azerbaijan 2 n/a n/a n/a 0.2%
Belgium 8 11 -27.3% <10 0.9%
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 n/a n/a n/a 0.1%
Brazil 191 193 -1.0% 224 21.2%
Cambodia 0 n/a n/a n/a 0.0%
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1st half 2nd half 6 Month % 1st half% of total
2012 2011 Change 2011 requests
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Canada 33 19 73.7% 9 3.7%
Croatia 0 n/a n/a n/a 0.0%
China 0 n/a n/a 3 0.0%
Colombia 0 n/a n/a <10 0.0%
Cook Islands 1 1 0.0% <10 0.1%
Cyprus 1 n/a n/a n/a 0.1%
Denmark 0 n/a n/a <10 0.0%
Estonia 0 n/a n/a n/a 0.0%
Finland 0 n/a n/a n/a 0.0%
France 72 31 132.3% 9 8.0%
Germany 247 103 139.8% 125 27.4%
Greece 3 n/a n/a <10 0.3%
Hong Kong 1 n/a n/a n/a 0.1%
Hungary 2 n/a n/a n/a 0.2%
India 84 101 -16.8% 68 9.3%
Indonesia 3 n/a n/a <10 0.3%
Ireland 1 n/a n/a <10 0.1%
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1st half 2nd half 6 Month % 1st half% of total
2012 2011 Change 2011 requests
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Israel 4 5 -20.0% <10 0.4%
Italy 25 28 -10.7% 36 2.8%
Japan 16 7 128.6% n/a 1.8%
Kazakhstan 2 n/a n/a n/a 0.2%
Libya 0 n/a n/a <10 0.0%
Liechtenstein 0 n/a n/a n/a 0.0%
Lithuania 1 n/a n/a n/a 0.1%
Macedonia [FYROM] 1 n/a n/a n/a 0.1%
Malaysia 2 n/a n/a <10 0.2%
Malta 3 n/a n/a n/a 0.3%
Mauritius 2 n/a n/a n/a 0.2%
Mexico 5 n/a n/a n/a 0.6%
Netherlands 10 n/a n/a 4 1.1%
New Zealand 4 n/a n/a <10 0.4%
Norway 0 3 -100.0% 2 0.0%
Pakistan 4 2 100.0% <10 0.4%
Panama 0 n/a n/a n/a 0.0%
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1st half 2nd half 6 Month % 1st half% of total
2012 2011 Change 2011 requests
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Peru 2 n/a n/a n/a 0.2%
Philippines 4 n/a n/a n/a 0.4%
Poland 3 2 50.0% 3 0.3%
Portugal 2 n/a n/a <10 0.2%
Puerto Rico 0 n/a n/a n/a 0.0%
Russia 6 n/a n/a <10 0.7%
Saudi Arabia 1 n/a n/a n/a 0.1%
Singapore 2 n/a n/a n/a 0.2%
Slovenia 3 n/a n/a n/a 0.3%
Solomon Islands 0 n/a n/a n/a 0.0%
South Africa 3 n/a n/a n/a 0.3%
South Korea 33 94 -64.9% 88 3.7%
Spain 69 43 60.5% 13 7.6%
Sri Lanka n/a n/a n/a <10 n/a
Sweden 2 n/a n/a <10 0.2%
Switzerland 4 8 -50.0% <10 0.4%
Taiwan 10 8 25.0% 69 1.1%
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1st half 2nd half 6 Month % 1st half% of total
2012 2011 Change 2011 requests
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Thailand 2 4 -50.0% 2 0.2%
Trinidad and Tobago 1 n/a n/a n/a 0.1%
Turkey 501 45 1013.3% 39 55.5%
United Kingdom 97 49 98.0% 65 10.7%
United States 273 187 46.0% 92 30.2%
Vietnam 0 n/a n/a n/a 0.0%
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SOURCE: Google Transparency Report
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/data/
Note: Totals do not include countries with <10 requests.
Note(*): Services included Android Market, Blogger, Gmail, Adwords, App Engine
Books, Docs, Earth/Maps, Groups, Images, Places, Profiles, Sites, Videos
orkut, Picasa, Street View, Textcube, Search, and Youtube.
To contact the reporter on this story: Stephen Rose in Washington at srose31@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Alex Tanzi at atanzi@bloomberg.net
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