Government surveillance 'on the rise': Google[ Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:12:32 GMT ]Government demands for user data worldwide from Google have "increased steadily," the search giant says in a new report. U.S. government agencies continue to make the most requests for user data, Google says: 7,969 such requests in the first half of the year. Google says it complied with 90 percent of those requests.