Google will share your personal data with governments and law enforcement agencies when it receives a legally valid request, such as a court order, subpoena, or national security letter.
Renamed to 'Law Enforcement and Legal Disclosure' and added a new commitment to notify users of legal demands for their personal information with exceptions for law or court order prohibitions.
View full change record →Governments and law enforcement agencies can obtain your Gmail messages, location history, search queries, and other Google account data through legal process, and Google's policy does not commit to notifying you before complying with such requests (except where legally permitted).
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Because Google stores extensive personal data including location history, emails, search queries, and voice recordings, a single legal order could expose years of intimate personal information to government authorities — including in countries with authoritarian governments where Google operates.
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: Government disclosure obligations engage the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA, 18 U.S.C. §§2701–2712), the Stored Communications Act (SCA, 18 U.S.C. §2703), Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and National Security Letters (18 U.S.C. §2709). For EU users, GDPR Art. 48 restricts enforcement of foreign court judgments requiring data transfers absent an international agreement. The CLOUD Act (Pub. L. 115-141) governs cross-border law enforcement data requests.
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