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Google has a record number of inquiries from 26 developed countries, to show private information about Internet users to receive

Private information about Google users was from a government or police demanded more than 14,000 times in 26 developed countries in the second half of last year, according to figures published for the first time by the Internet company yesterday.

In an effort to highlight online censorship reveals, Google, it had received several inquiries from the United States than anywhere else has, and that they complied with anywhere from three quarters to more than 90% of the requests, depending on which country they were made in.

Google received a record 4601 requests from the U.S. to Internet users to disclose 'private data in the six months to December, up 28% over the previous year. The California-based company said it met in whole or in part, with 94% of user data orders from the U.S., with 72% of respondents from the United Kingdom.

According to Google, the United Kingdom 1162 user data requests in the second half of last year, making it the fourth position in relation to the requests, after the United States, Brazil and India. Google began sharing his semi-annual Transparency Report in April 2010 to mark it as a way for government censorship of the Internet.

William Echikson, Google 's head of freedom of expression in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, also said it was "more and more" pressure from European governments to remove content. "We believe that governments around the world crackdown on the Internet, and there are more and more pressure from within Europe - it 's not just us but all Internet companies," he told the Guardian.

Google products are banned or partially banned in 25 countries, pointed out Echikson. He said the "increased the profile" Arab Spring uprising, in which Egypt and Tunisia is looking forward to the Internet \ of online censorship, but Internet companies must do more to combat the trend.

Google said it complies with the request for access to 43 videos from YouTube blocked in Thailand because they were breaking the country 's Law' ridicule or criticism "the king, Bhumibol Adulyadej.

The figures show that Brazil still leads the way in demanding that Google remove content from its services, with 263 orders from South Korea, Germany, Libya and India. The UK 's Office of Fair Trading called for the removal of 93 360 fraudulent Google Adwords linked to fraud in this period. The majority of removal requests content from the U.S. stem from court orders on defamation. According to the figures, six U.S. court orders resulted in the removal of 1,110 positions from the Google Groups forums about the defamation of a man and his family.

Google said it had received no content removal requests from Chinese authorities in the second half of 2010. The search began forwarding Chinese users of its uncensored Hong Kong site in June 2010 under allegations of government spying. Hong Kong increased its demands for payload of 80% over the period of six months, to 90; Google complies with 59%.