Government Surveillance Is on the Rise, Says Google

Google released its sixth Transparency Report on Tuesday, showing what it believes is a clear trend: around the world, government requests for user data is on the upswing. "As you can see from the graph below, government demands for user data have increased steadily since we first launched the Transparency Report," wrote Dorothy Chou, senior policy analyst at Google, in a blog post. "In the first half of 2012, there were 20,938 inquiries from government entities around the world. Those requests ...