When eight technology companies presented a plan this month to reform government surveillance, a key request concerned transparency. At Google, we were the first company to publish a transparency report detailing the requests we receive from governments around the world to bring down content or hand over information on users.Panoptykon , a Polish NGO, published this month a preliminary Internet transparency report for Poland and Fores , a Stockholm-based think tank, issued a stud y in Sweden. report last spring. In addition, university researchers in Hong Kong moved ahead over the summer with their own report . In Strasbourg, the Council of Europe recently held an important conference on the subject and hopefully will move ahead to present a series of recommendations on transparency for its 47 members.339 Swedish authorities and found that more than a third had requested data about users or takedowns of user-uploaded content. Panoptykon uncovered that Polish telcos received 1.76 million requests for user information in 2012, while Internet companies polled received approximately 7,500. In addition, Panoptykon discovered that many Polish government requests for information on users were based on a flawed or unclear legal basis. Posted by William Echikson, Head of Free Expression, Europe, Middle East and Africa
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