Between 2020 and the first half of 2024, national security was the leading reason governments worldwide used to remove online content on Google, with 29.3 percent of all requests stating that. In the measured period, approximately 21.54 percent of content removal requests were based on copyright reasons. Other reasons were privacy and security, regulated goods and services, fraud and defamation.
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