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Greater transparency around government requests
Posted by David Drummond, SVP, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer. Google Public Policy Blog, Tuesday, April 20, 2010. "... [Google] are today launching a new Government Requests tool to give people information about the requests for user data or content removal we receive from government agencies around the world. For this launch, we are using data from July-December, 2009, and we plan to update the data in 6-month increments..."
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Last updated: 21 April 20103
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