Google Transparency Report – requests from government agencies for user data

Interesting how requests from Russia, Turkey and Hungary are consistently ignored, how China is not on the list, and how Brazil's requests have very high compliance rate (similar to the U.S.)

I wonder why Austria isn't listed, while both Swiss and Germany have a lot of requests.

The part I find interesting is the ratio of user accounts specified to # of requests. E.g. the United States made ~8k requests for ~16k user accounts.

In complying, what kind of data does google provide?

According to this, "URLs requested to be removed from Search per week" has increased 10-fold over the past six months.<p><a href="http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/</a>

Does this mean that my govt. can read all of my mails if they want to? Am I missing something?<p>Why is no one complaining?<p>Isn't there an email service which has 0% compliance? I would shift to that, now!

Wow Canada has a similar population and political system as Australia but we only had 50 vs Australia's 523.<p>What's going on there?

Probably just easier to hack the accounts.

Is this obtained only with a subpoena or with a warrant?

India has defended her 2nd position consistently. Wonder what percentage of it was demanded by political parties (especially the ruling ones) out of their vested interests.