Government requests worldwide for user data related to search engine traffic on Google increased 29% from 2014 to 2015. The U.S. leads the world in government requests for data, followed by Ireland, Germany, Ireland. Google received more than 40,000 requests in the second half of 2015, compared to 35,000 in the first half of the year. Google agreed to hand over “some” user data for 64% of the requests worldwide, but it handed over data for government requests 79% of those.”]