Google published information about the requests for user information it has received from nations across the world on Thursday (luisvilla/Flickr)

Google said on Thursday on its official blog that the number of requests for user data from governments and law enforcement has doubled since 2010, with the United States accounting for more than a third of the requests Google received from countries worldwide.

The US accounted for 10,918 of the 25,879 requests that Google received in the first half of 2013, with India (2,691), Germany (2,311), France (2,011), the UK (1,274) and Brazil (1,239) rounding up the top five.

Richard Salgado, Google's Legal Director for Law Enforcement and Information Security, said that the information that they had published only included the requests they were allowed to publish, and asserted that the public deserved to know more about the requests they receive under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

"We want to go even further. We believe it’s your right to know what kinds of requests and how many each government is making of us and other companies. However, the U.S. Department of Justice contends that U.S. law does not allow us to share information about some national security requests that we might receive. Specifically, the U.S. government argues that we cannot share information about the requests we receive (if any) under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. But you deserve to know."

Google provided data in 83 percent of requests by the United States, and in 65 percent of requests worldwide.

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