Google Says Government Surveillance Growing
November 14th, 2012Captain Obvious in the house.
Via: Information Week:
In its sixth semiannual government Transparency Report, Google on Tuesday noted that one trend is clear: “Government surveillance is on the rise.”
This may not come as a shock at a time when an FBI investigation into confrontational email messages between two women uncovered a tangentially related extramarital affair, forcing the resignation of the nation’s director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Indeed, it reprises what Google has said in previous government Transparency Reports: Governments want more data about Google users and want more content posted by Google users removed. In June, Google characterized the rise in politically motivated content takedown requests as “troubling.”
