Interesting how requests from Russia, Turkey and Hungary are consistently ignored, how China is not on the list, and how Brazil's requests have very high compliance rate (similar to the U.S.)
Canada has the Bell (telephone) and Rogers (cable) duopoly. In addition, both of them offer internet service and cellular data service. Odds are, if the Canadian government (agencies and governments underneath the Canadian federal government or any of the provincial governments and their subordinate agencies) ever did need information about anyone they could call one of these two companies first.
Note: I am not at all sure if Canadian laws allow for this kind of thing, and I am not all accusing either company or any of their competitors of being party to such a request. I'm merely indicating that because of the market dominance of two very large telecommunication companies who practically own the cables underground, the airwaves above, and reasonable number of media outlets in Canada between them, the number of requests an entity would need to make to gather information about someone is pretty small. I would not be surprised if the order of requests for information went something like: call Rogers and get any info, call Bell and get any info, call Google and get any info.
Good point, subpoena to a domestic company deeply connected to the government would be easier than targeting Google. I'm not sure what Australia's telecom situation is, but I'd imagine that would also be the case.
It does show the compliance rate of the request which I think is really high in some countries considering Google may not have been legally obligated to comply.
I wonder what kind and what amount of data is released. There's a range from the IP address that created, say, a YouTube video to an accounts entire GMail history to the entire Google profile associated with that account, including visited web pages as learned from ad networks etc. Not sure if they even store the latter in a way that could be part of a targeted request.
A breakdown by product would be a start.
On a sidenote that page has been available forever, it's not a new thing.
India has defended her 2nd position consistently. Wonder what percentage of it was demanded by political parties (especially the ruling ones) out of their vested interests.
