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YouTube adds legal basis for sharing data with regulators, researchers and dispute bodies

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The legal-bases section of YouTube's EU privacy policy gains a new bullet saying certain laws require Google to share information with regulators and third parties, such as researchers and authorized out-of-court dispute bodies. The rest of the section is unchanged, and the effective-date header line was removed.

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  • Information may be shared with researchers and out-of-court dispute bodies where laws require it
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Certain laws require us to share information with regulators and third parties, such as researchers and authorized out-of-court dispute bodies.+ inserted · ✓ matched in source
Effective July 1, 2025 | Archived versions | Download PDF− struck · ✓ matched in source
Archived version ↗ · 194 words changed
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