UK tops Google snoopers chart
Google released their “transparency report” a couple of days ago. There’s been a little coverage of how high the UK is in the chart, but what I haven’t seen is an analysis of the data per head of population. It’s pretty logical that the US would have more requests than the UK, after all they have five times the population. So, here we have it, the top ten countries for government snooping per head of population. Data is for the 12 months from July 2009 to June 2010.
| Population | Requests | Requests per Million | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. United Kingdom | 62,008,049 | 2,509 | 40.5 |
| 2. Brazil | 193,549,000 | 6,098 | 31.5 |
| 3. France | 65,447,374 | 1,863 | 28.5 |
| 4. United States | 310,314,000 | 7,867 | 25.4 |
| 5. Italy | 60,402,499 | 1,201 | 19.9 |
| 6. Australia | 22,469,943 | 355 | 15.8 |
| 7. Spain | 46,072,834 | 696 | 15.1 |
| 8. Chile | 17,133,000 | 225 | 13.1 |
| 9. Belgium | 10,827,519 | 138 | 12.7 |
| 10. Singapore | 5,076,700 | 62 | 12.2 |
Removals are harder to count as the numbers are lower and start disappearing into noise, but for completeness, where data is available, here it is:
| Population | Removals | Removals per Million | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Libya | 6,546,000 | 149 | 22.8 |
| 2. Germany | 81,802,257 | 312 | 3.8 |
| 3. Brazil | 193,549,000 | 689 | 3.6 |
| 4. Italy | 60,402,499 | 126 | 2.1 |
| 5. South Korea | 49,773,145 | 102 | 2.0 |
| 6. United Kingdom | 62,008,049 | 107 | 1.7 |
| 7. Australia | 22,469,943 | 31 | 1.4 |
| 8. Argentina | 40,518,951 | 54 | 1.3 |
| 9. Spain | 46,072,834 | 48 | 1.0 |
| 10. United States | 310,314,000 | 251 | 0.8 |