The policy states that Google will share personal information in response to applicable law, legal process, or enforceable governmental requests based on a good-faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary, and publishes aggregate government request data in a Transparency Report.
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This provision establishes the standard Google applies when responding to government data requests, including the good-faith belief threshold and the absence of a requirement for prior user notification in all circumstances, which is standard practice for technology platform operators but operationally significant for users in sensitive contexts.
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Compare across platforms →"We will share personal information outside of Google if we have a good-faith belief that disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to: Respond to any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request. We share information about the number and type of requests we receive from governments in our Transparency Report.Excerpt from Google's Privacy Policy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision implicates the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and the Stored Communications Act (SCA) in the U.S., which govern government access to electronic communications data.
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This provision establishes the standard Google applies when responding to government data requests, including the good-faith belief threshold and the absence of a requirement for prior user notification in all circumstances, which is standard practice for technology platform operators but operationally significant for users in sensitive contexts.
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