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Governments ask Google to remove more content
By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press Updated 20h ago

SAN FRANCISCO – U.S. authorities are leading the charge as governments around the world pepper Google with more demands to remove online content and turn over information about people using its Internet search engine, YouTube video site and other services.

"It's alarming not only because free expression is at risk, but because some of these requests come from countries you might not suspect — Western democracies not typically associated with censorship," Dorothy Chou, Google's senior policy analyst, wrote in a Sunday blog post.

Google provided a glimpse at the onslaught of government requests in a summary posted on its website late Sunday. The breakdown covers the final six months of last year. It's the fifth time that Google has released a six-month snapshot of government requests since the company engaged in a high-profile battle over online censorship with China's communist leadership in 2010.

The country-by-country capsule illustrates the pressure Google faces as it tries to obey the disparate laws in various countries while trying to uphold its commitment to free expression and protect the sanctity its more than 1 billion users' personal information..............................>>>>.............................>>>>.....................http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-06-18/google-remove-content/55666184/1

it's alarming because the government can't help but follow it's nose and read everything we do in such detail....maybe being in the 'plebs' head isn't so nice......most of us could care less...
the government on the other hand is having difficulties being 'exposed' to the plebs and their plans/feelings/thoughts/likes/dislikes etc......the 'they' will always be responsible when 'they' have
access, because some schmuck will say "they saw it on the internet why didn't they do something"....