The UK government have ranked 6th in a 6 monthly data request report from Google published every 6 months, showing information requests from global governments.

The UK ranked behind other EU countries including Germany and France, asking 1,425 times for data from the information giant.

Google detailed that it had complied with 56 percent of requests from the UK in the first 6 months of 2012, refusing requests including the removal of a video hosted on YouTube that complained of racism within a local police agency.