Snapchat U.S. government user data requests 2022

During the first half of 2022, photo sharing and chat app Snapchat received 22,521 user data requests from the federal agencies and courts in the United States, up from 20,920 requests in the preceding six month period.

Number of user data requests made to Snapchat from U.S. federal agencies and courts from 2nd half 2014 to 1st half 2022

Period	Number of data requests
H1 '22	22,521
H2 '21	20,920
H1 '21	18,742
H2 '20	16,509
H1 '20	16,931
H2 '19	11,903
H1 '19	10,061
H2 '18	6,826
H1 '18	7,235
H2 '17	5,094
H1 '17	3,726
H2 '16	2,008
H1 '16	1,472
H2 '15	862
H1 '15	761
H2 '14	375

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Release date

January 2023

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Region

United States

Survey time period

H2 2014 to H1 2022

Special properties

Government and federal agency requests for data

Supplementary notes

The table below provides the number of government requests for user data from the United States issued by U.S. authorities for U.S. criminal investigations as well as requests made on behalf of other governments pursuant to mutual legal assistance treaties and other diplomatic mechanisms.

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