Latest reports from Google reveal that user data requests that came from India in 2013 was more than those put forward by any other Asian country.
Google’s latest Data Transparency report, which mainly focuses on law, policy and access to information online, showed the total number of law enforcement agency requests that Google and YouTube received from each country last year.
According to the report, US, with 21,492 “law enforcement agency requests,” is at the number one spot followed by India with the second-highest number of requests in 2013 at 5,204. Google said it complied with approximately 65 percent of those requests.
Third in the list was Germany, with a total of 4,971 data requests followed by France and United Kingdom making it to the fourth and fifth position with 4,761 and 2,671 data requests respectively.
The other countries who made it to the top 10 list include Brazil at the sixth position with 2,324 request, Italy at the seventh position with 1,797 requests, Australia at the eight position with 1,425 requests and Spain stood at the ninth position with 1,192 request made over the course of the year.
The last position in the top 10 user data list was attained by Poland which accounted for 998 user data requests.
User data requests to the web giant are generally made by law enforcers when they suspect any user for being involved in some kind of criminal behavior – usually copyright infringement or the posting of pornographic or defamatory content.
