Whilst visiting Bavaria for the Munich Security Conference , Rachel Whetstone, Senior Vice President Communications and Public Policy at Google, gave a speech at the Bavarian Parliament about Google's views on surveillance, security and privacy. The following is the full text of her speech. Oberstaufen was our first Street View launch in Germany. Minister-President Seehofer was the first German politician to do a live interview on YouTube . Even the model locomotive in your Stone Hall represents a shared love of technology and excitement about the future.
First, government surveillance and the role technology companies have in the fight against crime and terrorism;
Second, the growing need to keep people’s information safe and secure online; and
And third, privacy in the digital age.
Government surveillance
For example, in the first six months of 2010, Google received almost 15,000 government requests for user data. By 2014, that number had risen to just under 35,000.
We look carefully at every request and provide information in the majority of these cases--over 65 percent.
Last year alone we removed 14 million videos because they broke YouTube’s policies, including those prohibiting gratuitous violence, incitement to violence and hate speech.
We automatically terminate the accounts of any terror group, and hand over the account information to the authorities.
We allow law enforcement, for example the UK Home Office, to flag videos containing terrorist content, which we review and remove as a priority. We hope to work with law enforcement in other countries on similar efforts.
And we partner with dozens of non-governmental organizations on counter-speech--helping provide an alternative viewpoint to vulnerable young people.
Privacy and security of personal information Gallup poll showed people are more concerned with theft online than having their house broken into.Safe Browsing technology identifies sites that steal passwords or contain malware. If you’re using the Chrome browser, we show very visible warnings--20 million per week--when you try to visit a malicious webpage. And because we make this data publicly available, Apple’s Safari and Mozilla’s Firefox browsers can use it as well. This helps protect over one billion people all around the world. Privacy and trust Takeout tool that enables you remove data stored by Google and put it elsewhere. We want people using our services because they love them, not because we hold their data hostage.The potential of science and technology Origin of Species , and Mendeleev created the periodic table. That’s a pretty good 17 years. Technology was moving fast--probably faster than people wanted it to.Posted by Al Verney, Corporate Communications
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