Google Releases “Censorship Maps”

They might have laughed off villagers chasing off a streetview car, but it looks like Google has started to make moves to pacify the campaigners claiming that the search giant breaches privacy laws.

The Official Google Blog has announced that a censorship map has been released, so that users can see if their government has made a request to Google to have data removed from the search results or YouTube.  There is however one glaring omission.

As Chinese state officials consider censorship demands to be “secrets of state security”, no data will be shown for China – the state which commenters have suggested would have submitted most demands.

Google hopes that this map will lead to greater transparency and less censorship. Campaigners around the globe will be waiting with baited breath to see if it does.

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