Since Google launched its first Transparency Report in 2010, we have been committed to sharing data that sheds light on how the policies and actions of governments and corporations affect privacy, security, and access to information online.
This public overview of consumer profiling techniques applied to or across Alphabet’s core platform services is published by Google Ireland Limited pursuant to Article 15 DMA. The European Union (EU) Digital Markets Act came into effect on 6 March 2024.
The European Union (EU) Digital Services Act (DSA) came into force on 16 November 2022. This consolidated audit implementation report regarding Google Maps, Google Play, Google Shopping, YouTube, and Google Search is published by Google Ireland Limited pursuant to Articles 37 and 42 DSA.
The European Union (EU) Digital Markets Act (DMA) came into force on 6 March 2024. This summary of our compliance report, published pursuant to Art. 11 of the DMA, describes our compliance with Arts. 5, 6, and 7. This summary is intended to facilitate meaningful input from third parties to the European Commission regarding our compliance with those obligations.
Google is committed to promoting transparency for business users of our platforms. As a provider of online intermediation services platforms, we will publish this report on the effectiveness of our internal complaints handling processes annually, in accordance with the European Platform to Business (P2B) regulation, which came into effect on July 12, 2020.
The European Union (EU) Digital Services Act (DSA) came into force on 16 November 2022. We welcome the DSA's goals of making the internet even more safe, transparent and accountable, while ensuring that everyone in the EU continues to benefit from the open web. This audit report regarding Google Maps is published by Google Ireland Limited pursuant to Articles 37 and 42 DSA.
The European Union (EU) Digital Services Act (DSA) came into force on 16 November 2022. We welcome the DSA's goals of making the internet even more safe, transparent and accountable, while ensuring that everyone in the EU continues to benefit from the open web. This audit report regarding Google Play is published by Google Ireland Limited pursuant to Articles 37 and 42 DSA.
The European Union (EU) Digital Services Act (DSA) came into force on 16 November 2022. We welcome the DSA's goals of making the internet even more safe, transparent and accountable, while ensuring that everyone in the EU continues to benefit from the open web. This audit report regarding Google Search is published by Google Ireland Limited pursuant to Articles 37 and 42 DSA.
The European Union (EU) Digital Services Act (DSA) came into force on 16 November 2022. We welcome the DSA's goals of making the internet even more safe, transparent and accountable, while ensuring that everyone in the EU continues to benefit from the open web. This audit report regarding Google Shopping is published by Google Ireland Limited pursuant to Articles 37 and 42 DSA.
The European Union (EU) Digital Services Act (DSA) came into force on 16 November 2022. We welcome the DSA's goals of making the internet even more safe, transparent and accountable, while ensuring that everyone in the EU continues to benefit from the open web. This report is published on 14 February 2025 in compliance with Article 24(2) DSA, which requires providers of online platforms and search engines to publish information on the average “monthly active recipients of the service” in the EU.
Google publishes monthly transparency reports on complaints received from users in India and the actions taken thereon across Google’s platforms that are classified as “Significant Social Media Intermediaries” (“SSMIs”).
In accordance with Rule 3A(7) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 ("IT Rules"), Google is publishing this report with details of orders received by Google from the Grievance Appellate Committees.
The European Union (EU) Digital Services Act (DSA) came into force on 16 November 2022. We welcome the DSA's goals of making the internet even more safe, transparent and accountable, while ensuring that everyone in the EU continues to benefit from the open web. This report is published pursuant to Arts. 15 and 24 DSA.
The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union have introduced regulation (EU) 2021/784 with regards to hosting terrorist content on certain online platforms. Google is committed to promoting transparency for the users of our platforms as to the action taken to address the dissemination of terrorist content.
On July 31, 2020, the Turkish government introduced amendments to the Law
No. 5651 on Regulation of Broadcasts via Internet and Prevention of Crimes
Committed through Such Broadcasts (“Law No. 5651”) which requires social
network providers to publish reports on a semiannual basis.
This report is published for the purposes of compliance with this
reporting obligation and provides data on our access ban and content
removal processes as well as statistical and categorical information on
individual requests. The report also provides general information about our
removal practices and policies.
Based on Article 64-5 of the Act on Promotion of Information and
Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection.
The two bills that passed on May 20, 2020 are amendments
to the Network Act and the Telecommunications Business Act that requires
online service providers (OSPs) to implement technical and administrative
measures to prevent the circulation of illegal sexual content on their
platforms. The technical and managerial measures stipulated in the two bills
include requirements such as having an intake mechanism for reports on
illegal sexual content, removing / blocking access to such content upon
notice, recording the operational status of technical measures, designating
a person responsible for compliance, and submitting an annual transparency
report.
The European Union (EU) Digital Services Act (DSA) came into force on 16 November 2022. We welcome the DSA's goals of making the internet even more safe, transparent and accountable, while ensuring that everyone in the EU continues to benefit from the open web. With respect to Google Search, Google Maps, Google Play, Google Shopping, and YouTube, as required by Article 42 DSA, Google Ireland Limited has published its report here setting out the results of the risk assessment pursuant to Article 34 DSA and the specific mitigation measures put in place pursuant to Article 35(1) DSA.
The European Parliament and the Council have introduced Regulation (EU) 2021/1232 on a temporary derogation from certain provisions of Directive 2002/58/EC as regards the use of technologies by providers of number-independent interpersonal communications services for the processing of personal and other data for the purpose of combating online child sexual abuse (the “Regulation”). The providers of electronic communication services (ECS) in scope of the Regulation must publish a transparency report on the processing of personal data under this Regulation on an annual basis. This report provides information on the processing of personal data for the purpose of detecting and removing online child sexual abuse and reporting it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) for the ECS in scope of the Regulation within the European Union (EU).
The Communication Platforms Act (KoPl-G), which entered into force on
January 1, 2021, is an Austrian law that sets requirements for how the
providers of communication platforms have to handle complaints about
illegal textual content.
The biannual report provides data consistent with § 4 KoPl-G, including
information about YouTube’s organization and procedures, the volume of
complaints received under the law, and the volume of removed content
pursuant to the law.
The European Union (EU) Digital Services Act (DSA) came into force on 16 November 2022. We welcome the DSA's goals of making the internet even more safe, transparent and accountable, while ensuring that everyone in the EU continues to benefit from the open web. This report is published by GIL pursuant to Arts. 15, 24, and/or 42 DSA.
The European Union (EU) Digital Services Act (DSA) came into force on 16 November 2022. We welcome the DSA's goals of making the internet even more safe, transparent and accountable, while ensuring that everyone in the EU continues to benefit from the open web. This audit report regarding YouTube is published by Google Ireland Limited pursuant to Articles 37 and 42 DSA.
YouTube offers Copyright Management tools for all copyright
owners. We match rightsholders with the appropriate tool
based on their needs and capabilities. This report provides
data on rights management across YouTube, both for
rightsholders and users affected by copyright claims.
It also provides general information about our rights
management practices and policies.
For newer versions of this report covering periods after 2022, please see the
updated YouTube Copyright Transparency Report.
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