Last month Google pulled out of China due to the Censorship row. They have now revealed that there have been requests for handing over information or asking to censor information. Brazil has put in the most requests with 3,663 requests, followed by the US with 3,580 and UK with 1,166.
I’m glad that Google is making this information public as transparancy has to be a good thing. I imagine that the censorship requests often deal with things like child pornography and the data relate to crimes or potential crimes… however, it is quite scary to see that western governments are requesing this information…. remember big brother is always watching you 
(although that’s not such a bad thing if it means that there are less terrorist attacks and child pornography rings are broken up).