Google (Gmail) / Government Information Requests
Google (Gmail) changed its Government Information Requests
Recorded, not announced. This change is page furniture rather than
policy: 1 short label, no prose and no tracked vocabulary: "close". It is kept because the archive records every change to a tracked
document, but subscribers were not emailed about it. Anything containing a sentence, or any of the
scanning and encryption vocabulary this archive follows, is always announced.
Recorded 22 Oct 2026 — +1 lines added, −0 removed. This page shows the exact difference between the previous snapshot and the new one.
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ Technologies
FAQ Privacy & Terms+close Overview Privacy Policy
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ScanRecords. “Google (Gmail) changed its Government Information Requests.” Recorded 22 Oct 2026. https://scanrecords.org/change/2026-10-22-google-gov-requests/ — snapshot SHA-256 (after): c35548c182250a9102435acc5c7201efad352ed850d38c904fdcacd0f9a0e01c.