United States National Security Requests
This section relates to requests for user information pursuant to U.S. 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
1000-1249
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
% 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
This category reflects any valid request to remove content allegedly infringing copyright.
Copyright Infringement Notices
Percentage of requests where some content was removed
1,296
96.80%
Copyright Infringement Counter-Notices
Percentage of requests where some content was republished
36
100%
This category reflects any valid request to remove content allegedly infringing a trademark.
Trademark infringement notices
Percentage of requests where some content was removed
169
60.90%