A critical part of our work to make Snapchat safer is cooperating with law enforcement and government agencies to fulfill valid requests for information to assist in investigations. We also work to proactively escalate any content that could involve imminent threats to life or bodily harm.

While most content on Snapchat deletes by default, we work to preserve and provide account information to government agencies in accordance with applicable law. Once we have received and established the validity of a legal request for Snapchat account records — which is important in verifying the request is being made by a legitimate law enforcement or government agency and not a bad actor — we respond in compliance with applicable law and privacy requirements.

The charts below detail the types of requests we support from law enforcement and government agencies, including subpoenas and summons, court orders, search warrants, and emergency disclosure requests.

Also, the percentage of requests for which some data was produced is calculated as of the publication date, based on requests received within the reporting period. In infrequent situations where a request was determined to contain a deficiency -- leading Snap not to produce data -- and law enforcement later submitted an amended, valid request after publication of the transparency report, the later production of data would not be reflected in the original or subsequent reporting periods.

* “ਖਾਤਾ ਪਛਾਣਕਰਤਾਵਾਂ” ਤੋਂ ਭਾਵ ਕਨੂੰਨੀ ਪ੍ਰਕਿਰਿਆ ਵਿੱਚ ਵਰਤੋਂਕਾਰ ਦੀ ਜਾਣਕਾਰੀ ਦੀ ਮੰਗ ਕੀਤੇ ਜਾਣ 'ਤੇ ਕਨੂੰਨ ਲਾਗੂ ਕਰਨ ਵਾਲੀ ਸੰਸਥਾ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਦੱਸੇ ਇਕਹਿਰੇ ਖਾਤੇ ਨਾਲ ਸਬੰਧਿਤ ਪਛਾਣਕਰਤਾਵਾਂ ਦੀ ਗਿਣਤੀ (ਜਿਵੇਂ ਕਿ ਵਰਤੋਂਕਾਰ ਦਾ ਨਾਮ, ਈਮੇਲ ਪਤਾ ਅਤੇ ਫ਼ੋਨ ਨੰਬਰ) ਹੈ। ਕੁੱਝ ਕਨੂੰਨੀ ਪ੍ਰਕਿਰਿਆਵਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਇੱਕ ਤੋਂ ਵੱਧ ਪਛਾਣਕਰਤਾ ਸ਼ਾਮਲ ਕੀਤੇ ਜਾ ਸਕਦੇ ਹਨ। ਕਈ ਮਾਮਲਿਆਂ ਵਿੱਚ, ਕਈ ਪਛਾਣਕਰਤਾ ਕਿਸੇ ਇੱਕ ਖਾਤੇ ਦੀ ਪਛਾਣ ਕਰ ਸਕਦੇ ਹਨ। ਅਜਿਹੇ ਮਾਮਲਿਆਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਜਿੱਥੇ ਕੋਈ ਇੱਕ ਪਛਾਣਕਰਤਾ ਕਈ ਬੇਨਤੀਆਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਨਿਰਧਾਰਤ ਹੈ, ਤਾਂ ਹਰ ਮਾਮਲਾ ਸ਼ਾਮਲ ਹੁੰਦਾ ਹੈ।

**ਬ੍ਰਾਜ਼ੀਲ ਲਈ "ਹੋਰ ਜਾਣਕਾਰੀ ਬੇਨਤੀਆਂ" ਦੇ ਅੰਕੜੇ ਨੂੰ ਪੁਰਾਣੀ ਅਣਪਛਾਤੀ ਗੜਬੜ ਨੂੰ ਠੀਕ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ ਅੱਪਡੇਟ ਕੀਤਾ ਗਿਆ ਹੈ।

Note: Although we do not formally track when we remove content that violates our policies when a request has been made by a governmental entity, we believe it is an extremely rare occurrence. When we believe it is necessary to restrict content that is deemed unlawful in a particular country, but does not otherwise violate our policies, we seek to restrict access to it geographically when possible, rather than remove it globally.

As an additional note, our teams have begun to further improve our governmental takedown operations, to track the information required to be disclosed under the Digital Services Act. In future reports, we will roll out new data points in this category.