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Know which content Indian Government wanted to remove Google Transparency Report

Know which content Indian Government wanted to remove Google Transparency Report

Google Transparency Report reveals which content Indian Government wanted to remove

Google released transparency report, which for the first time included nearly 30 examples of content that dozens of governments have asked the search engine giant to remove.

It’s a good move by Google to reveal which content government or people want to get removed

Following is the list of content which Google was asked to removed and the action taken by Google

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Request Period: July to December 2013

Request: We received a request from a representative for a general elections candidate to remove a YouTube video that allegedly associated him with corrupt financial practices.

Outcome: We did not remove content in response to this request because it not go through proper legal channels.

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Request Period: July to December 2013

Request: We received a request from the police to remove a blogpost per local obscenity laws that contained content about a politician's sex scandal, including photographs.

Outcome: We did not remove content in response to this request as the subjects of the blogpost were not identifiable.

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Request Period: July to December 2013

Request: We received a request from the police to remove a search result that replaced the police logo "Truth Alone Triumphs" with "Bribe alone Triumphs."

Outcome: We did not remove content in response to this request because it not go through proper legal channels.

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Request Period: July to December 2012

Request: We received a request from a city Cyber Crime Investigation Cell to remove current depictions of disputed borders of Jammu and Kashmir in five Google Maps domains other than maps.google.co.in.

Outcome: We did not change our depiction of the borders in response to this request.

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Request Period: July to December 2012

Request: We received inquiries from 20 countries regarding YouTube videos that contain clips of the movie, "Innocence of Muslims": Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Brunei, Djibouti, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and the United States. Australia, Egypt, and the United States requested that we review the videos to determine if they violated our Community Guidelines, which they did not. The other 17 countries requested that we remove the videos.

Outcome: We restricted videos from view in Indonesia, India, Jordan, Malaysia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Turkey. Due to difficult circumstances, we temporarily restricted videos from view in Egypt and Libya.

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Request Period: July to December 2012

Request: During the period of disturbance in the North-East region, we received five requests from the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team to remove content from Google+, a Blogger blog, 64 YouTube videos, and 1759 comments associated with some YouTube videos, that cited laws covering disruption of public order or ethnic offence laws. The Google+ URLs were only links to search results that did not identify specific posts that violated applicable law.

Outcome: In response to these requests, we removed one video for violating our YouTube Community Guidelines. We also restricted 47 Youtube Videos from local view, in addition to removing 12 YouTube comments and disabling local access to 3 Blogger blog posts that violated local laws.

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Request Period: July to December 2012

Request: We received a court order addressed to a third party to remove 247 search results for linking to websites that allegedly violated an individual's privacy.

Outcome: We did not remove the search results because we were unable to determine their relationship to the court order. We requested clarification but did not receive a reply.

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Request Period: January to June 2012

In response to a court order, we removed 360 search results. The search results linked to 360 web pages that contained adult videos that allegedly violated an individual's personal privacy.

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Request Period: January to June 2011

We received requests from state and local law enforcement agencies to remove YouTube videos that displayed protests against social leaders or used offensive language in reference to religious leaders. We declined the majority of these requests and only locally restricted videos that appeared to violate local laws prohibiting speech that could incite enmity between communities. In addition, we received a request from a local law enforcement agency to remove 236 communities and profiles from orkut that were critical of a local politician. We did not remove content in response to this request, since the content did not violate our Community Standards or local law.

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Request Period: July to December 2010

Request: We received requests from different law enforcement agencies to remove a blog and YouTube videos that were critical of Chief Ministers and senior officials of different states.

Outcome: We did not remove content in response to these requests.

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Request Period: July to December 2009

In the last half of 2009, the majority of Indian requests for removal of content from orkut related to alleged impersonation or defamation.

Google in its blog post said following
From June to December 2013, we received 3,105 government requests to remove 14,637 pieces of content. You may notice that this total decreased slightly from the first half of 2013; this is due to a spike in requests from Turkey during that period, which has since returned to lower levels. Meanwhile, the number of requests from Russia increased by 25 percent compared to the last reporting period. Requests from Thailand and Italy are on the rise as well. In the second half of 2013, the top three products for which governments requested removals were Blogger (1,066 requests), Search (841 requests) and YouTube (765 requests). In the second half of 2013, 38 percent of government removal requests cited defamation as a reason for removal, 16 percent cited obscenity or nudity, and 11 percent cited privacy or security.

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4 comments:

Destination Infinity December 28, 2014  

LOL @ Bribe alone triumphs :)

Destination Infinity

rudraprayaga December 28, 2014  

LOL only I can say because let the people know the fact.