To mark the occasion, Twitter released its latest transparency report, which breaks down government requests for user data as well as copyright complaints and "take down" requests.

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According to the Google Transparency Report, in a typical week Disney sends 20 requests lodging complaints against more than 6, 200 offending URLs.

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Now that the Democratic Party has an office there, says Mr Fong, the housing department takes swifter note of residents' requests and complaints.

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The requests came amid complaints from some individuals over content that parodied leading Indian politicians.

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The officers refused interview requests by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

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He also cited complaints that local governments were ignoring open-records requests.

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The California Department of Financial Institutions, faced with a growing number of consumer complaints directed at financial institutions in the wake of the global economic crisis, needed a solution to process citizen requests faster and to improve case-tracking and recordkeeping.

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