Google received requests from the South African government for user information, but the tech giant declined to cooperate.
According to Google’s latest transparency report, it received 7 requests from South Africa for user data.
Google explains that “we review each request to make sure that it complies with both the spirit and the letter of the law, and we may refuse to produce information or try to narrow the request in some cases”.
What is telling is that Google did not provide information in any of these requests. It basically told whoever asked for the information to get lost…
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