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United States National Security Requests

This section relates to requests for user information pursuant to US national security legal process. The following includes National Security Letters (NSLs) and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court Orders/Directives. We disclose this data in ranges of 250.

National Security

Requests

Account Identifiers

NSLs and FISA orders/directives

250-499

1250-1499

Governmental Content & Account Removal Requests

This section relates to demands by a government entity to remove content and accounts that would otherwise be permissible under our Terms of Service or Community Guidelines.

Removal Requests

Percentage of orders resulting in content or account removal

0

N/A

Note: The metrics above relate to valid legal orders received from governmental authorities, which require Snap to take down content and/or account(s) that do(es) not violate our policies. These metrics exclude: (i) requests for the removal of content and/or account(s) that are not valid legal orders, and (ii) requests and orders targeting content and/or account(s) that we determine violate our policies.

Notices of Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights

Copyright Infringement Notices

This category reflects any valid request to remove content allegedly infringing copyright.

Copyright infringement notices

Percentage of requests where some content was removed

1,070

88.8%

Copyright Infringement Counter-Notices

Percentage of requests where some content was republished

3

33.3%

Trademark Infringement Notices

This category reflects any valid request to remove content allegedly infringing a trademark.

Trademark infringement notices

Percentage of requests where some content was removed

159

71.1%