Google’s latest transparency report reveals it rejected nearly 60 per cent of the right to be forgotten requests. It was on May 13, 2014 that the Court of Justice of the European…
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Snapchat publishes first-ever transparency report
Instant messaging service Snapchat has published its first-ever transparency report on government request for user data. Snapchat’s data request report covers a four-month period starting November 1, 2014 to February 28, 2015…
Facebook complied with 70% government data requests in UK
Social networking giant Facebook on Wednesday revealed that it complied with 70 per cent of data requests from UK government while also revealing that global government requests for user information rose 24…
Google says demand for data from governments up by 150%
The report is published semi-annually to maintain transparency of its operations pertaining to data.
Dropbox publishes its first six-month transparency report
Dropbox: In the current period, January to June 2014, we received 268 requests for user information from law enforcement agencies and 0-249 national security requests.
Government data requests surged by 120% in last four years claims Google
According to Google’s latest transparency report published on Thursday, data requests by government agencies have increased by more than 120 percent since 2009 when the company first began publishing the data request…
Tech giants reveal government data request details
Leading tech firms Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Facebook and LinkedIn, on Monday published their reports which mentioned in detail the government’s snoop-data requests as part of its mass surveillance programme. The tech giants…
Microsoft announces ‘Brussels Transparency Centre’
Microsoft is up with plans of opening ‘Transparency Centers’ all around the world that would offer government customers an increased ability to review its source code and get confirmation of the fact…
Verizon outs first transparency report; 386 data requests from UK
As promised, US Telco Verizon has released its first transparency report for 2013 revealing that it received over 320,000 data requests from local, state or federal law enforcement agencies in the US…
Google: Government requests for content removal increase by 68 percent
Google, in its latest transparency report, has revealed that government request for information takedown has increased by 68 percent during the first half of 2013 as compared to the second half of…
US Court rejects Google, Microsoft, Yahoo motion to disclose national security requests
US court has rejected the motion for declaratory judgment filed by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook and LinkedIn. Google and other companies asked for permission from the US Government and FBI to publish…
Microsoft reveals first six months worth of government data requests for 2013
Microsoft recently revealed the latest end-user data request figures in its Law Enforcement Requests Report for the first six months according to which it received 37,196 global requests for user data from…