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.

* “खाते आयडेंटीफायर” वापरकर्त्याच्या माहितीची विनंती करताना कायदेशीर प्रक्रियेत कायद्याच्या अंमलबजावणीद्वारे निर्दिष्ट केलेल्या एका खात्याशी संबंधित ओळखकर्त्यांची संख्या (उदा. वापरकर्तानाव, ईमेल पत्ता आणि फोन नंबर) दर्शवते. काही कायदेशीर प्रक्रियामध्ये एकाहून अधिक आयडेंटीफायर असू शकतो. काही उदाहरणांमध्ये, अनेक अभिज्ञापक हे एक खाते ओळखू शकतात. ज्या उदाहरणांमध्ये जेथे एक आयडेंटीफायर अनेक विनंत्यांमध्ये निर्दिष्ट केला गेला असेल, त्यामध्ये प्रत्येक उदाहरण समाविष्ट केले जाते.

** ब्राझीलसाठी प्रदर्शित केलेल्या "इतर माहिती विनंत्या" ह्या यापूर्वी अनावधानाने झालेल्या त्रुटी दुरुस्त करण्यासाठी अद्यतनित केलेल्या आहेत.

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.