‘Google removes 71,132 content pieces in May, 83,613 items in Jun in India’

Google removed 71132 pieces of content in May and took 83613 removal actions in June following user complaints the company said in its monthly transparency reports released on FridayIn addition to reports from users Google also removed 634357 pieces of content in May and 526866 in June as a result of automated detectionThe USbased company has made these disclosures as part of compliance with Indias IT rules that came into force on May 26In its maiden report Google said it had received over 27700 complaints in April this year from individual users in India over alleged violation of local laws or personal rights which resulted in the removal of 59350 pieces of contentIn its report for May Google said it had received 34883 complaints from individual users located in India via designated mechanisms and the number of removal actions as a result of user complaints was 71132These complaints relate to thirdparty content that is believed to violate local laws or personal rights on Googles SSMI significant social media intermediary platforms it addedThe content removal was done under several categories including copyright 70365 defamation 753 counterfeit 5 other legal 4 circumvention 3 and graphic sexual content 2Google 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 removedIn June Google received 36265 complaints the highest till now from individual users located in India via designated mechanisms It removed 83613 pieces of content as a result of user complaints in the said monthContent removed during June was done under similar categories as in May Copyright segment accounted for the largest number of content removed 83054 trademark 532 counterfeit 14 circumvention 4 other legal 2 graphic sexual content 1 and defamation 1Three content pieces were removed under the impersonation category and two under court order Under the new IT rules large digital platforms with over 5 million users will have to publish periodic compliance reports every month mentioning the details of complaints received and action taken thereonThe report is to also include the number of specific communication links or parts of the information that the intermediary has removed or disabled access to in pursuance of any proactive monitoring conducted by using automated tools Google removed 634357 pieces of content in May and 526866 in June as a result of automated detectionThis data is a new addition to the compliance reports Talking about automated detection Google said it invests heavily in fighting harmful content online and uses technology to detect and remove it from its platforms including YouTubeldquoThis includes using automated detection processes for some of our products to prevent the dissemination of harmful content such as child sexual abuse material and violent extremist content Automated detection enables us to act more quickly and accurately to enforce our guidelines and policiesrdquo the company notedThese removal actions may result in removing the content or terminating a bad actors access to the Google service The volume of automated detection is close to 10x that of user complaints the company saidGoogle has been publishing its Transparency Report since 2010 that provides details on government requests for content removals on a biannual basis The company also reports on YouTube content removals quarterlyThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever