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A transparency report is a statement issued semesterly or annually by a company or government, which discloses a variety of statistics related to requests for user data, records, or content. Transparency reports generally disclose how frequently and under what authority governments have requested or demanded data or records over a certain ...
Google maintains the Safe Browsing Lookup API, which has a privacy drawback: "The URLs to be looked up are not hashed so the server knows which URLs the API users have looked up". The Safe Browsing Update API , on the other hand, compares 32-bit hash prefixes of the URL to preserve privacy.
Google's transparency report shows a consistent trend of growth in requests by Australian authorities for private information, constantly rising approximately 20% year-on-year. The most recent published volume for the period ending December 2013 indicates a volume of around four individual requests per calendar day.
VirusTotal provides a public API as a free service. It provides automation for some of its online features such as to "upload and scan files, submit and scan URLs, access finished scan reports and make automatic comments on URLs and samples".
On 7 December 2011, The Times of India revealed that the search engine Google was asked to remove around 358 items by the Government of India out of which 255 items were said to criticise the government as per a Google transparency report. The government had asked Google to remove 236 items from Orkut and 19 items from YouTube for the same ...
Certificate Transparency (CT) is an Internet security standard for monitoring and auditing the issuance of digital certificates. [1] When an internet user interacts with a website, a trusted third party is needed for assurance that the website is legitimate and that the website's encryption key is valid.
An example of content censored by law is the removal of web sites from Google search results that deny the holocaust, which is a felony under German law. According to the Google Transparency Report, the German government is frequently one of the most active in requesting user data after the United States.
A 2021 transparency report showed that 25% of data requests from law enforcement to Google were geo-fence data requests. [3] Google is the most common recipient of reverse location warrants and the main provider of such data, [4] [5] although companies including Apple, Snapchat, Lyft, and Uber have also received such warrants. [1] [3]