"Like other technology and communications companies, we regularly receive requests from government agencies around the world to remove content from our services or provide information about users of our services and products."
 
Accordingly Google provides a world map and offers the caveat that: "We know these numbers are imperfect and may not provide a complete picture of these government requests. For example, a single request may ask for the removal of more than one URL or for the disclosure of information for multiple users"

The UK made 1,166 data requests and 59 removal requests. The US made 123 removal requests and Germany made 188. But Germany had only 458 data requests and the US 3,580

Of the 1166 data requests where 59 were removal requests (below)
◦ 76.3% of removal requests were fully or partially complied with.
◦ 1 AdWords
◦ 1 Blogger
◦ 1 Geo (except Street View)
◦ 1 Groups (court order)
◦ 1 Image Search (court order)
◦ 1 Image Search
◦ 8 Web Search (court order)
◦ 2 Web Search
◦ 43 YouTube

"We’re new at this,"concludes Google on its service page "and we’re still learning the best way to collect and present this information. We’ll continue to improve this tool and fine-tune the types of data we display."

What the data can do, says Nicole Wong, Google’s deputy general counsel, is to help start a more informed conversation about Internet censorship and monitoring.

The company is trying to get an outside nonprofit to print the texts of the letters Google gets asking for this kind of information, which would provide more material about the specific nature of the requests.

Information alone will not prevent governments from trying to suppress expression. But transparency tools like this one could help everyone see where the biggest problems lie.

The Chilling Effects website offers background material and explanations of the law for people whose websites deal with topics such as Fan Fiction, Copyright, Domain Names and Trademarks, Anonymous Speech, and Defamation.

Open Net Initiative is another site carrying news on internet filtering   and is a collaborative partnership between three institutions: the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto; the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; and the SecDev Group (Ottawa).

The aim here is to investigate, expose and analyse Internet filtering and surveillance practices in a credible and non-partisan fashion. We intend to uncover the potential pitfalls and unintended consequences of these practices, and thus help to inform better public policy and advocacy work in this area.

To achieve these aims  a multi-disciplinary approach includes:
Development and deployment of a suite of technical enumeration tools & core methodologies for the study of Internet filtering and surveillance;
Capacity-building among networks of local advocates and researchers;
Advanced studies exploring consequences of current and future trends and trajectories in filtering and surveillance practices, and implications for domestic, international law & governance regimes.