Google receives record 137,657 user complaints in India in July

New Delhi: Google received a record 137,657 user complaints in July this year in India, in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021, and removed 6,89,457 pieces of bad content in the country in the same month.

Most of the complaints it received from Indian users were related to copyright violations (135,341), while other categories included trademark, court order, graphic sexual content, circumvention, and others.

The tech giant received 37,173 complaints from individual users via designated mechanisms in the country in the same period, related to third-party content that is believed to violate local laws or personal rights on various Google platforms.