Once a year, google releases what they call their "Transparency Report," which is - well - a report detailing some statistics about data they release to governments of the world. It is at once fascinating, amusing, and potentially terrifying.
Some interesting tidbits:
- content removal requests by the U.S. alone were up 70% from last year
- number of data requests made by the U.S. were also up 29%
- The U.S. Government made 5,950 total data requests on 11,057 user accounts (not really sure how those add up...)
- Google complied with 93% of those data requests
Here's a link to the full report. Play around with some of the features (the map is particularly cool) and see what data looks like. How this relates to our class is that we're about to start examining how the public and private spheres of users' lives start to integrate as we participate in digital media. Should they? Shouldn't they?
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