Google regularly receives requests from governments around the world, asking them to remove content and fork over user data.

In its recently published Transparency Report, Google reveals which countries place the most requests for information about users and for removal of content.

Content-removal requests can vary dramatically from country to country, depending on local laws. While many requests occur over alleged defamation, hate speech or pornography law violations, others are just, well, snoopy.

United States, for example, submitted more than 4,000 requests in just six months last year.

Google received court orders and requests from the Telecommunications Communication Presidency of the Information and Communications Technologies Authority to remove YouTube videos and blogs that documented details about the private lives of political officials. Google restricted Turkish users from accessing YouTube videos that appeared to violate local laws and removed the blogs for violating Blogger’s Terms of Service.