The Visual Du Jour – LOL Your Surveillance State (and Private Cooperation)
June 27, 2011 by SocProf and tagged surveillance society
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The amount of compliance is amazing to me. So much for protecting user data.. As I’ve said before, the surveillance society is a public-private partnership.
Posted in Surveillance Society | 4 Comments »
June 27th, 2011 at 6:35 pm
Eh, this doesn’t seem too odd. A lot of Google’s traffic comes from the US. I interpret the high compliance rate to mean that most of the US’s requests are reasonable. In fact, it seems Google considers a significantly higher share of US requests to be reasonable than most other high-request countries
June 29th, 2011 at 1:50 am
Doug is probably right about the traffic. But I’d find it interesting to compare the countries based on user demographics, given that the graph depicts requests for user data. France for instance could become interesting (ie scary): about 5 times less population than the US and probably a significantly lower amount of active internet users, but only about 4 times less government requests!
June 29th, 2011 at 12:52 pm
You might want to check the data before making comparisons.
June 30th, 2011 at 6:26 am
Thanks for that link. I checked the data but on the number of internet users, not traffic per user: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=internet+access+france+usa