Even though Snapchat has promoted user privacy and autonomy since its founding, we’ve only recently been able to systematically track and report requests for user information. Beginning in July 2015, we will publish a bi-annual Transparency Report, which will explore government requests we have received for users’ account information, government demands to remove users’ content, and requests to takedown content for alleged copyright violations.

But in the interest of transparency, we figured why wait until we had a full six months of data before publishing our first Transparency Report. So what you’ll see here in our inaugural report covers all the various requests we received from 1 November 2014 through to 28 February 2015, and how often we honoured those requests.

For more information about how we handle these sorts of requests, please take a look at our Law Enforcement Guide, Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.