{"id":18206,"date":"2013-05-23T14:20:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T12:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=18206"},"modified":"2013-05-23T14:20:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T12:20:51","slug":"on-googles-transparency-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/23\/on-googles-transparency-report\/","title":{"rendered":"On Google&#8217;s Transparency Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>While catching up with my RSS feeds, I saw the <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/transparency-report-more-government.html\">latest Google Transparency Report<\/a> from the end of last month. \u00a0The summary of the report basically says that the number of governmental requests to remove content from Google is raising quite rapidly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/transparency-report-2013.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18207\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/23\/on-googles-transparency-report\/transparency-report-2013\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/transparency-report-2013.png?fit=400%2C318&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,318\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"transparency report 2013\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/transparency-report-2013.png?fit=400%2C318&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18207\" alt=\"transparency report 2013\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/transparency-report-2013.png?resize=400%2C318&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"400\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are also some clarifications of why that might be:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>There was a sharp increase in requests from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/transparencyreport\/removals\/government\/BR\/\">Brazil<\/a>, where we received 697 requests to remove content from our platforms (of which 640 were court orders\u2014meaning we received an average of 3.5 court orders per day during this time period), up from 191 during the first half of the year. The big reason for the spike was the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazilian_municipal_elections,_2012\">municipal elections<\/a>, which took place last fall. Nearly half of the total requests\u2014316 to be exact\u2014called for the removal of 756 pieces of content related to alleged violations of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planalto.gov.br\/ccivil_03\/leis\/l4737.htm\">Brazilian Electoral Code<\/a>, which forbids defamation and commentary that offends candidates. We\u2019re appealing many of these cases, on the basis that the content is protected by freedom of expression under the Brazilian Constitution.<\/li>\n<li>Another place where we saw an increase was from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/transparencyreport\/removals\/government\/RU\/\">Russia<\/a>, where a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-20096274\">new law took effect<\/a>\u00a0last fall. In the first half of 2012, we received six requests, the most we had ever received in any given six-month period from Russia. But in the second half of the year, we received 114 requests to remove content\u2014107 of them citing this new law.<\/li>\n<li>During this period, we received inquiries from 20 countries regarding YouTube videos containing clips of the movie \u201cInnocence of Muslims.\u201d While the videos were within our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/t\/community_guidelines\">Community Guidelines<\/a>, we restricted videos from view in several countries in accordance with local law after receiving formal legal complaints. We also temporarily restricted videos from view in Egypt and Libya due to the particularly difficult circumstances there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One thing that I am missing is a correlation to the actual size of the Google index. \u00a0I mean, I of course understand that it is incomparably larger than all these requests combined, but I keep thinking that the more content you&#8217;ll index, the more removal requests you&#8217;ll get. \u00a0So, I think, it would be interesting to see the correlation in growth of removal requests to the growth of the Google&#8217;s global index.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>While catching up with my RSS feeds, I saw the latest Google Transparency Report from the end of last month. \u00a0The summary of the report basically says that the number of governmental requests to remove content from Google is raising quite rapidly. There are also some clarifications of why that might be: There was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/23\/on-googles-transparency-report\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On Google&#8217;s Transparency Report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[3024,3148,2068,2233,1090,2909,1041],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-18206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-brazil","tag-censorship","tag-google","tag-google-search","tag-government","tag-russia","tag-statistics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21496,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/10\/online-har-viewer\/","url_meta":{"origin":18206,"position":0},"title":"Online HAR viewer","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"HTTP Archive Viewer - a handy tool for troubleshooting web pages. \u00a0Here is how to use it: Open Google Chrome browser (new tab). 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