21.03.2013 - 16:17 [ Electronic Frontier Foundation ]

Visualizing Google‘s Transparency Report, Part 3: What Countries Ask For The Biggest Share of Netizen Data?

While Google is not equally popular in all regions, the infographic shows alarming levels of requests for Hong Kong with 5 million users, with an Internet penetration of 74.5%, and Singapore with 4 million with a 75.0% penetration of Internet users. By comparison, Hong Kong‘s neighbor Japan with 101 million users and penetration slightly higher 79.5% has the second lowest rate of requests.