Google: Internet freedom is declining

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Google: Internet freedom is declining

Between January and June of this year, the United States asked Google for information about its users 4,287 times and filed 128 requests asking Google to remove information from its websites, according to the data.

Google said it complied with nearly 83 percent of U.S. requests that it remove information from its search engine or other sites.

Chou said Google complies with the laws of the countries in which it operates, and declined to list a specific example of a censorship request in the United States. She said, however, that a request might be for Google to remove content from a blog that violates U.S. copyright law.

Google also sends information about online content it is asked to remove to a website called ChillingEffects.org, she said.

Because the data are not collected in the same way for all countries, and because Google is based in the United States, it is difficult to compare those numbers to the censorship requests of other countries, Chou said.

In general, she said, countries are making more efforts to block online content.

"The openness and freedom that have shaped the internet as a powerful tool has come under threats from governments who want to control that technology," she said, adding that the public will be able to see this shift with Google's new tool.

Google: Internet freedom is declining - CNN.com

 

[KissMy]

Here is some proprietary confidential info Cingular had removed from Google.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Google: Internet freedom is declining

Google: Internet freedom is declining - CNN.com

Google is the FOX in the chicken coop/hen house.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Here is some proprietary confidential info Cingular had removed from Google.

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Maybe it's time people demanded Google stop collecting so much info or somebody start a rush away from Google, and to alternative search engines and email clients?

 

[Oddball]

Google: Internet freedom is declining

Between January and June of this year, the United States asked Google for information about its users 4,287 times and filed 128 requests asking Google to remove information from its websites, according to the data.

Google said it complied with nearly 83 percent of U.S. requests that it remove information from its search engine or other sites.

Chou said Google complies with the laws of the countries in which it operates, and declined to list a specific example of a censorship request in the United States. She said, however, that a request might be for Google to remove content from a blog that violates U.S. copyright law.

Google also sends information about online content it is asked to remove to a website called ChillingEffects.org, she said.

Because the data are not collected in the same way for all countries, and because Google is based in the United States, it is difficult to compare those numbers to the censorship requests of other countries, Chou said.

In general, she said, countries are making more efforts to block online content.

"The openness and freedom that have shaped the internet as a powerful tool has come under threats from governments who want to control that technology," she said, adding that the public will be able to see this shift with Google's new tool.

Google: Internet freedom is declining - CNN.com

Interesting charge, coming from the goobers who support the freedom killing net neutrality laws.

 

[R.C. Christian]

Google talking about internet freedom? What is this some kind of sick joke?