*Number of demands (number of customer selectors in those demands)
Country
1H 2019 Subscriber Information
1H 2019 Transactional Information
2H 2019 Subscriber Information
2H 2019 Transactional Information
1H 2020 Transactional Information
2H 2020 Subscriber Information
2H 2020 Transactional Information
1H 2021 Subscriber Information
1H 2021 Transactional Information
Argentina
0
Australia1
1(1)
4(4)
2(2)
6(6)
5(5)
7(7)
3
12
Austria
01(1)
Belgium
229(361)
279(418)
275(601)
223(445)
Canada
France
733(867)
17(17)
712(830)
35(35)
24(24)
712(823)
14(14)
767(842)
9(9)
Germany2
16(16)
575(575)
712(712)
549(549)
57(57)
585(585)
13(13)
593(593)
Hong Kong
India3
Italy
19(19)
20(20)
12(12)
18(18)
33(33)
26(26)
56(56)
41(41)
Japan
Netherlands4
59(59)
72(72)
44(44)
61(61)
Singapore
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
3(3)
8(8)
Taiwan
UK
23(27)
39(43)
26(27)
10(10)
1. In Australia, we are precluded by law from reporting the number of warrants we received from law enforcement for interceptions or stored communications. As such, for Australia, we provide only the numbers of demands for subscriber information and transactional information. 2. In Germany, in addition to legal demands for subscriber information and transactional information, we received demands for lawful intercepts. During the first half of 2021, we received 1,610 such demands regarding 1,610 customer selectors. All of these demands were for the interception of calls initiated in Germany and made to specified international numbers. 3. In India, we are precluded by law from discussing any information about the requests that we might receive from the Government of India. We are similarly precluded from identifying the specific number of websites that we were asked to block by the Government of India.
4. In the Netherlands, the Central Information Point for Telecommunications (CIOT in Dutch) program run by the Ministry of Justice requires telecommunications providers to store all subscriber data (name, address, service provided, name of provider, telephone numbers, IP-addresses, and email addresses) in a central database that is accessible to Dutch law enforcement. The information we report here does not include access by Dutch law enforcement to customer data that are stored in the CIOT database. The Dutch government provides its own report on law enforcement access to the information stored by all providers in the CIOT database: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/jaarverslagen/2020/07/09/jaarverslag-ciot-2019. We did not receive any demands for lawful intercepts in the Netherlands during the first half of 2021.
Verizon provides cloud computing and data storage services to business customers around the world, including many non-U.S. customers in data centers outside the United States. In our prior Transparency Reports, we advised that we had not received any demands from the U.S. government for data stored in other countries during the periods covered in those Transparency Reports. Likewise, we did not receive any demands from the U.S. government for data stored in other countries during the first half of 2021. Nor do we anticipate that we will receive such a demand going forward.