For those curious, the spike in National Security takedown requests in 2016-2017 seems to have been largely driven by requests from the Russian government (which have since petered out), not the United States.<p><a href="https://transparencyreport.google.com/government-removals/by-country/RU?hl=en&country_request_amount=group_by:reasons;period:;authority:RU&lu=country_request_amount" rel="nofollow">https://transparencyreport.google.com/government-removals/by...</a><p>Somewhat interestingly, the biggest takedown requests in the U.S. seems to be due defamation lawsuits, and they come from the judicial (not executive) branch.<p><a href="https://transparencyreport.google.com/government-removals/by-country/US?hl=en&country_request_amount=group_by:reasons;period:;authority:RU&lu=country_item_amount&country_item_amount=group_by:branches;period:;authority:RU" rel="nofollow">https://transparencyreport.google.com/government-removals/by...</a><p>Not sure what to make of this; but it's interesting. :)
The "domain by % encryption" table[0] is really cool - effectively a "name and shame" for still having old or misconfigured software.<p>0: <a href="https://transparencyreport.google.com/safer-email/overview?hl=en&encrypt_region_table=region:001;encryption_level:RED,YELLOW&lu=encrypt_region_table" rel="nofollow">https://transparencyreport.google.com/safer-email/overview?h...</a>
The political advertising section is fascinating. You can see exactly what ads each entity ran, when, and how many impressions they received. Surprising to see the GOP dominate the spending overall!<p>I could spend hours here.
I think it's kind of funny that China has tried to get over 10,000 items removed, with the majority of government takedown requests happening in the past two years it seems[0], given that Google is officially banned in the country.<p>[0]: <a href="https://transparencyreport.google.com/government-removals/by-country/CN" rel="nofollow">https://transparencyreport.google.com/government-removals/by...</a>
Adding a link to Facebook Transparency Report: <a href="https://transparency.facebook.com/" rel="nofollow">https://transparency.facebook.com/</a>