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.
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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.
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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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We may access, preserve, and share information with regulators, law enforcement, or others if we believe it is reasonably necessary to: detect, prevent, and address fraud and other illegal activity; protect ourselves, you, and others, including as part of investigations; and prevent death or imminen...
Miro's processing of personal data on behalf of customers is governed by the Customer Data Processing Addendum, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. A current list of subprocessors used by Miro is available at miro.com/legal/subprocessors-list/ and is updated from time to time.
This Privacy Policy explains what Personal Information (as defined below) we collect, why we collect it, how we use and disclose it... [Gemini may share data with] government or law enforcement agencies upon request.
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"We will share personal information outside of Google if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation, or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to: meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request.— Excerpt from YouTube Ads's Google Privacy Policy
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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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.
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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