Australian authorities made 195 requests for user data per 100,000 people, according to a new Surfshark analysis of 3.1 million requests made by the governments of 66 countries to Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple between 2013 and 2020. That reflected an overall increase of 213% since 2013. European countries dominated the Top 10 list, with Malta (765), Germany (353), the UK (336), France (315), Ireland (302), and Luxembourg (246) reflecting the surveillance culture on that continent. Singapore ranked the second-most-intrusive government, while China ranked last.”]