Incident #F6802F · 12 OCT 2026notable
Google's privacy policy adds law-enforcement disclosure examples and a YouTube AI likeness-detection example
The legal-bases table now adds a link to Google's data disclosure policies and explicit examples of disclosing limited data to law enforcement to prevent, detect or investigate crimes, and of disclosing data where there is a good-faith belief of an imminent threat to life. It adds a YouTube likeness-detection example and an example of processing content-removal requests. The sentence that Google's legal team reviews every government request and often pushes back on overly broad ones was reworded to 'Like other technology and communications companies...' and replaced by a link to data disclosure policies. The text on activity-based ads for signed-out users now mentions 'across devices'.
Taken from you
- In the legal-bases table, the sentence that Google's legal team reviews each request and frequently pushes back on overly broad ones was replaced by a link to data disclosure policies. The same sentence remains in the Key terms section.
- New example in the legal bases: disclosing limited data to law enforcement authorities whenever appropriate to prevent, detect or investigate crimes.
- New explicit basis to disclose data on a good-faith belief of an imminent threat to life
Won back
- Added a link to Google's data disclosure policies
Evidence · 4 of 4 quotes matched in source
For example, disclosing limited data to law enforcement authorities whenever appropriate for the purpose of preventing, detecting or investigating crimes.+ inserted · ✓ matched in source
disclosing data to law enforcement authorities where we have a good faith belief that it is necessary and appropriate for the purpose of preventing an imminent threat to life and the disclosure complies with applicable law.+ inserted · ✓ matched in source
whether to show you more relevant search results or ads based on your activity across devices.+ inserted · ✓ matched in source
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