{"id":4324,"date":"2010-04-20T13:06:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T12:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=4324"},"modified":"2010-04-23T13:18:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T12:18:32","slug":"greater-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2010\/04\/20\/greater-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater Transparency Around Government Requests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/greater-transparency-around-government.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4325\" title=\"100423_google\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/100423_google.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Article 19 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/documents\/udhr\/\">Universal  Declaration on Human Rights<\/a> states that &#8220;everyone has the right to  freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold  opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart  information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.&#8221;  Written in 1948, the principle applies aptly to today&#8217;s Internet &#8212; one  of the most important means of free expression in the world. Yet  government censorship of the web is growing rapidly: from the outright  blocking and filtering of sites, to court orders limiting access to  information and legislation forcing companies to self-censor content. So  it&#8217;s no surprise that Google, like other technology and  telecommunications companies, regularly receives demands from government  agencies to remove content from our services. Of course many of these  requests are entirely legitimate, such as requests for the removal of  child pornography. We also regularly receive requests from law  enforcement agencies to hand over private user data. Again, the vast  majority of these requests are valid and the information needed is for  legitimate criminal investigations. However, data about these activities  historically has not been broadly available. We believe that greater  transparency will lead to less censorship. We are today launching  a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/governmentrequests\">Government  Requests tool<\/a> to give people information about the requests for user  data or content removal we receive from government agencies around the  world. For this launch, we are using data from July-December, 2009, and  we plan to update the data in 6-month increments. <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/controversial-content-and-free.html\">Read  this post<\/a> to learn more about our principles surrounding free  expression and controversial content on the web. <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/greater-transparency-around-government.html\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Global |  Company \u2014 Ethical Quote    link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/ethicalquote-public\/?value=14\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a> | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/greater-transparency-around-government.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article 19 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights states that &#8220;everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.&#8221; Written in 1948, the principle applies aptly to today&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[178],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-4324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-google","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4324"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=4324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}