Global Government Requests Report

Re:Global Government Requests Report by hglaser on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @01:33PM (#6284882)

Thanks for the CSV! Here are the top 10 countries by requests per capita[1]:

  Country               Requests    Population    Requests Per Capita
  Malta	                89          415,654       0.000214120398216
  United States (Min)	11000       313,900,000   0.000035043007327
  United Kingdom        1975        62,740,000    0.000031479120179
  Italy	                1705        60,720,000    0.000028079710145
  Australia             546         22,320,000    0.000024462365591
  New Zealand           106         4,405,000     0.000024063564132
  France                1547        65,430,000    0.000023643588568
  Germany               1886        81,800,000    0.000023056234719
  Singapore             107         5,184,000     0.000020640432099
  Portugal              177         10,560,000    0.000016761363636

Here's the full spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiKnxhgG6s6VdE1...

[1] I used the minimum of the range for the US. Its ranking doesn't change if you use the max.

Population data is from Google searches, which lists the World Bank as a source.

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Re:Global Government Requests Report by GHFigs on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @01:38PM (#6284916)

Per capita is misleading, as the report does not tell you the country of the user for which data was requested. If, for instance, Facebook were providing data on a non-US user, that would be counted as a US request.

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Re:Global Government Requests Report by jpatokal on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @09:22PM (#6287445)

So? Surely the interesting part about this is which governments are nosy, not the citizenships/residences of the people they're nosy about.

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