WASHINGTON: Google said Monday that worldwide government requests for user data rose 150% over five years, as the Internet giant renewed its call for reforms to allow for greater disclosure.
Updating the company's twice-yearly "transparency report," Google legal director Richard Salgado said "we've seen a 15% increase since the second half of last year, and a 150% jump since we first began publishing this data in 2009."
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