Government Data Requests
Cluster focuses on tech companies' transparency reports about government and law enforcement requests for user data, including skepticism over high numbers, compliance rates, reporting limitations like national security exclusions, and comparisons across firms like Google, Apple, and Twitter.
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Bold claim, did you review all 1.5 million requests?
This is basically a dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=971207Note that the other article has a useful calculation indicating that the total number of actual law enforcement requests is in the low hundreds.
How many gdpr requests are you involved in?
Google complies with 88% of government data requests. Where's the outrage?
Title is "8 Million requests for law enforcement data". Hmmm, sounds like data points to me. They were individual pings btw.
Wrong statistic. That's takedown requests. This is about requesting user's private data.
Those numbers seem odd. So almost 2 persons are the subject of every request?
"about 1 in 5 requests" maybe makes it a little willy-nilly. It's not yet clear what's happening.
Did you even read the page?> This report doesn't include national security requests. We want to report the exact number of national security requests we receive, if any. Unfortunately, the government allows services to disclose only the aggregate number of all law enforcement and national security requests received (and even then the disclosure must be in large bands). A report in that form decreases transparency, especially for companies that receive zero or very few national securit
I'm not sure that I would call multiple times a year "very, very rarely".Every service loves to use their total number of members and say that requests are very rare--relative to their number of users.But honestly not sure what they could have done, if FBI comes in with a legal request for a specific user's data, what are your options?