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Google and transparency

The confidentiality of personal data is sorely strained by requests coming from everywhere.

Google and transparency

According to data from IDC research hardware manufacturers have sold, for the first time in history, more smartphones that feature phones. These now account for 51.6% of the mobile market. Only in the last quarter were sent around the world 216,200,000 of smartphones.

The global market improves by only 4%, but shipments of smartphones increased by 41.6% over the previous year. The demand for smartphones has gone from India and the Asia-Pacific region. The demand for mature markets such as the European and North American begins to slow down.

Today, people use the phone only to call or send messages. They want to have a computer. From here the shift of the market towards those producers related to the smartphone.

Samsung is the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones with 27.5% of the market. It is still the first for the production of smartphones, with 32.7% of the market. Followed by Apple with 17.3%.

According to data from IDC research hardware manufacturers have sold, for the first time in history, more smartphones that feature phones. These now account for 51.6% of the mobile market. Only in the last quarter were sent around the world 216,200,000 of smartphones.

The global market improves by only 4%, but shipments of smartphones increased by 41.6% over the previous year. The demand for smartphones has gone from India and the Asia-Pacific region. The demand for mature markets such as the European and North American begins to slow down.

Today, people use the phone only to call or send messages. They want to have a computer. From here the shift of the market towards those producers related to the smartphone.

Samsung is the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones with 27.5% of the market. It is still the first for the production of smartphones, with 32.7% of the market. Followed by Apple with 17.3%.

The seventh semi-annual report on transparency largely follows those that have preceded it. Governments continue to press for details of the user and to withdraw content published. If that was not enough there are also the owners of copyright and the courts.

Other companies, following the example of Google, have proposed its own report on transparency. In July 2012 it fell to Twitter, in March this year to Microsoft. Other companies that have published their reports are DropBox, Sonic.Net, SpiderOak and LinkedIn. But not all companies are able to access the data of their users in the same way. The provider SpiderOak does not have the extensive knowledge that boasts Google users. In fact, the data about the user are encrypted before being stored. In fact, the content is inaccessible and the company can not disclose to applicants.

At this time Google is struggling against a letter of national security that, pursuant to the Patriot Act, provides access to personal data without that stakeholders are informed of the investigation. A recent judgment held that these letters are not unconstitutional. But their legitimacy the game is still open. Among other things, Google said it had received 10 false court orders for the removal of online content.

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