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.

* అకౌంట్ ఐడెంటిఫైయర్‌లు” వాడుకదారు సమాచారాన్ని అభ్యర్థించేటప్పుడు చట్టపరమైన ప్రక్రియలో చట్ట అమలు ద్వారా పేర్కొన్న ఒక సింగిల్ అకౌంట్ కు చెందిన ఐడెంటిఫైయర్ (ఉదా., యూజర్ పేరు, ఇమెయిల్ అడ్రస్ మరియు ఫోన్ నంబర్) ల సంఖ్యను ప్రతిబింబిస్తుంది. చట్టబద్ధ ప్రక్రియలలో కొన్ని ఒకటికంటే ఎక్కువ ఐడెంటిఫయర్లను కలిగి ఉండవచ్చు. కొన్ని సందర్భాలలో, బహుళ గుర్తింపు ఐడెంటిఫియర్లు ఒకే అకౌంట్‌ను గుర్తించవచ్చు. బహుళ అభ్యర్థనలలో ఒక ఐడెంటిఫయర్ పేర్కొనబడిన సందర్భాలలో, ప్రతి సందర్భమూ చేర్చబడుతుంది.

**బ్రెజిల్‌ కొరకు ప్రదర్శించబడిన "ఇతర సమాచార అభ్యర్థనలు" అంకె మునుపటి అనుకోని లోపం ను సరిచేయడానికి ఆధునీకరించబడింది.

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.