14 November 2013 (11:48 UTC-07 Tango)/10 Muharram 1434/23 Aban 1391/12 Gui-Hai (10th month) 4711

“Americans still have no way of knowing whether the government is striking the right balance between privacy and security, or whether their privacy is being violated.”-Al Franken, U.S. Senator from Minnesota

ABC (American Broadcasting Company) News reporting that Google has received a record number of U.S. federal government demands for your personal data.  In the first six months of 2013 the police state federal government demanding the info for 10918 Google users.  That’s 2949 more than all of 2012.  It’s double the government demands from 2009.

Google admits it turned over 83% of the data demanded.  Google officials also revealed that other governments have increased their demands for your personal data (14961 foreign government demands in first six months of 2013, and Google says they’ve complied with most of them).