Google Updates Transparency Report Site

Google updated its transparency report site. The site is more interactive, includes additional information and allows Google to highlight statistics, Google said Monday in a blog post. The report provides "a lens on the things that governments and courts ask us to remove, underscoring the importance of transparency around the processes governing such requests," it said. From June 2013 to December 2013, Google received 3,105 government requests to remove 14,637 pieces of content, it said. That's a slight decrease from the first half of 2013 due to a spike in requests from Turkey during that period, activity "which has since returned to lower levels," it said.