Category: General news

Google says government requests ‘up 120%’ in four years

Google has said the number of requests it has had from governments to share information about its users has gone up by 120% in the past four years. The rise was blamed on an increase in users, but the company also said more governments were starting to “exercise their authority to make requests”. In releasing […]

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The first Guardian data journalism: May 5, 1821

Data journalism is not new: the very first Guardian – or Manchester Guardian as it then was – in May 1821 contained a table of data. For the first time, The Guardian has extracted that table so you can see it for yourselves. The data would seem uncontroversial today: a list of schools in Manchester […]