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Indians Love Spying on Web Users
Bangalore: In signs of growing Internet snooping by the enforcement authorities, India made an average of 13 requests a day to Google for access to personal web details of web users during 2012.
In terms of the number of requests for web user details during 2012, India is next to only the U.S., which made 45 requests a day on an average the highest for any country.
The U.S. made a total of 16,407 such requests to Google during 2012, followed by India's 4,750, France's 3,239, Germany's 3,083, UK's 2,883 and Brazil's 2,777 in top-five.
The number of requests from all these countries rose in 2012, while the worldwide total also rose by 20 percent in 2012 to 42,327, as per Google's latest Transparency Report.
The number of such requests from India also rose by about 20 percent in 2012 from 3,946 in the previous year.
On its part, the U.S.-based global Internet giant Google provided part or full information to the enforcement agencies from India for about two-third of the total requests received by it during 2012. The compliance rate was much higher at 88 percent for requests received from the U.S.
Google publishes data for requests about user details, as also for removal of content on its various platforms, including Search, Images and YouTube, on a six-month basis.
