Google Received 49,000 Government Requests Worldwide for User Data for First Half of 2017

Google received nearly 49,000 government requests globally for user data involving more than 83,000 accounts for the first half of 2017, it reported Thursday. Richard Salgado, director-law enforcement and information security, blogged that the information includes requests for user data in criminal case and national security matters. In the first six months of 2016, Google received nearly 45,000 requests globally for data involving more than 76,700 accounts. In the U.S., Google received more than 16,800 requests -- including subpoenas, search warrants, court orders and emergency disclosures -- for user data from more than 33,700 accounts in the first six months of 2017. In the year-ago period, the company got nearly 13,700 requests about more than 27,200 U.S. accounts.