Google took down over 95K content pieces in July: repor
Google received 36,934 complaints from users and removed 95,680 pieces of content based on those complaints in July, the tech giant company said in its monthly transparency reports released on Tuesday.
In addition to reports from users, Google also removed 576,892 pieces of content in July as a result of automated detection. The Us-based company has made these disclosures as part of compliance with India’s IT rules that came into force on May 26. On Tuesday, Google said it had received 36,934 complaints in July from individual users located in India via designated mechanisms, and the number of removal actions as a result of user complaints was 95,680 - the highest so far.
In June, Google had received 36,265 complaints and removed 83,613 pieces of content as a result of user complaints. It had removed 59,350 pieces of content in April and 71,132 pieces in May.
“Some requests may allege infringement of intellectual property rights, while others claim violation of local laws prohibiting types of content on grounds such as defamation. When we receive complaints regarding content on our platforms, we assess them carefully,” Google said on Tuesday.
The content removal was done under several categories, including copyright (94,862), trademark (807), court order (4), circumvention (3), counterfeit (1), graphic sexual content (1), impersonation (1) and other legal requests (1).
Google explained that a single complaint may specify multiple items that potentially relate to the same or different pieces of content, and each unique URL in a specific complaint is considered an individual “item” that is removed.
Under the new IT rules, l digital platforms - with ov million users - will have to lish periodic compliance rep every month, mentioning details of complaints rece and action taken thereon.
The report must also inc the number of specific com nication links or parts of information that the interm ary has removed or disa access to in pursuance of proactive monitoring condu by using automated tools.
Google’s report showed th had removed 5,76,892 piec content in July as a resu automated detection.
This number stood at 5,26 in June.