We all know that web hosting companies receive legal requests ranging from copyright take down notices to search warrants. But how many such requests do they receive and where do they come from?
US hosting company DreamHost has released a first of its kind transparency report detailing all of the requests it's received in the last year. The three most common types are DCMA/Copyright notices, government requests -- such as those related to criminal investigations -- and requests to remove or censor content, usually related to defamation or privacy suits.
What's interesting is that a majority of the requests get rejected. DreamHost rejected 57 percent of combined information requests in 2014. Over 60 percent of those rejections were due to procedural errors made by the parties requesting them.
"With over 400,000 customers hosting all types of content imaginable, our legal team fields an incredible number of requests from outside parties," says Art Elizarov, DreamHost's VP of People Strategy and Administration. "We're not able to discuss ongoing investigations for obvious reasons, but we are able to give the world insight into what is asked of us as well as insights into how seriously we take the privacy of our customers".
Looked at by country, most requests come, unsurprisingly, from the US (1145 with 46 percent complied with). Germany is second with 39 requests and 64 percent compliance -- some Teutonic efficiency there, and the UK in third with 35 and 40 percent.
The DreamHost transparency report is available to download from the company's website. It's said that it will make this an annual thing, let's hope that it encourages other hosting companies to do the same.
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