Google has added some new details to its latest Transparency Report, as the Internet-search company seeks to balance the demands of law-enforcement agencies with its need to protect user privacy. The search giant has expanded the reporting on requests for information the company receives in emergency situations. These emergency disclosure requests come from government agencies seeking information to save the life of a person who is in peril (like a kidnapping victim). Gogole says that it is evaluating and fast-tracking these requests, and in true emergencies the company can provide the necessary data without delay. The Transparency Report previously included this number for the United States, but now it includes information about every country that submits this sort of request.

Google is also now reporting on government requests asking to set aside information relating to a particular user’s account. These requests can be made so that information needed in an investigation is not lost while the government goes through the steps to get the formal legal process asking Google to disclose the information. Gogole calls these "preservation requests" and because they don't always lead to formal data requests, the company keeps them separate from the country totals report. Beginning with this reporting period, Google is reporting this number for every country.

Google said it has received 30,138 requests from around the world seeking information about more than 50,585 users/accounts; the company provided information in response to 63 percent of those requests. Google saw slight increases in the number of requests from governments in Europe (2 percent) and Asia/Pacific (7 percent), and a 22 percent increase in requests from governments in Latin America.