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Exposing Censorship

To promote greater transparency, Google is creating a tool to give people information about government requests for content removal and user data.

“More than 40 governments censor information today, up from about four in 2002,” writes Google’s chief legal officer David Drummond. “And some governments are blocking — or proposing to block — content even before it reaches their citizens.” To promote greater transparency, Google is creating a tool to give people information about government requests for content removal and user data.


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