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Step-by-step guide to TikTok's Law Enforcement Data Request portal: how authorised police and government officials file preservation, records and emergency disclosure requests, what legal process each data type needs, and why Indian agencies must route via MLAT.

"Kendriya Pariksha Kendras” & "National Secure Exam Platform (NSEP)" are the most significant suggestions

In April 2026 alone, WhatsApp shut down nearly 5.5 million Indian accounts. The report that disclosed it exists because of a single country's law. The bigger story is why no other country gets one.

Police say suspect tricked nursing-exam aspirants in several states by promising leaked question papers on Telegram and charging about ₹2,000 each. Owing to such wide scale abuse of Telegram, India ranks first in data disclosure request from Telegram, with 2734 request sent in Q1 itself.

Singapore has taken swift action under the Online Criminal Harms Act, ordering YouTube, Facebook, and X to block 14 posts that spread nativist and xenophobic narratives targeting the Indian community. Investigations revealed the content originated from a China-based platform before being amplified across global social media, falsely claiming that Singapore’s multiracial model is a façade and that stability depends on its ethnic Chinese majority. The posts used derogatory imagery of India

LERS stands for Law Enforcement Response (or Request) System — the online portals where verified police submit data requests to WhatsApp, Google, Meta, Apple and more. How they work.

The Delhi High Court (SBI v. Hare Ram Singh) ruled that merely denying you shared an OTP won't make your bank pay: click a phishing link and the loss is yours. SIM-swap is different.

How police and government request user data from WhatsApp, Google, Meta, Apple and Telegram: the LERS portals, preservation vs disclosure, emergencies, and India's MLAT route.

How police request Apple and iCloud data via the Apple Law Enforcement Portal (lep.apple.com): preservation, emergency disclosure, and the warrant rule.

The Karnataka High Court held BSNL vicariously liable for a 2019 SIM-swap fraud that drained ₹87.7 lakh from a cooperative bank, ordering over ₹55 lakh in compensation.

Chinese intelligence officers pose as online HR recruiters or consultants who represent fake, but often legitimate-looking, “cover companies” and claim to be located in countries other than China. Five Eyes agencies have identified individuals who have undertaken these activities, leading to criminal prosecutions, job losses, and security-clearance revocation.

The police pointed out that Mạnh organized employees to improve the search engine rankings of relevant gambling websites by massively creating backlinks, publishing promotional articles and online content, etc; technically this method also involves unauthorized intrusion in genuine websites. The method is known as black hat SEO as well.