LERS Portals & Law-Enforcement Data Requests, by Platform
How police and government agencies request user data from major platforms — the official LERS portal, legal process, and emergency channels for each. Search or filter by platform below.
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WhatsApp LERS Portal: Police & Government Data Request Guide
The WhatsApp law enforcement (LERS) portal: the direct link, who can register, and how police file preservation, records and emergency disclosure requests.
Open guideFacebook & Instagram LERS Portal: Police Data Request Guide
How police request Facebook, Instagram and Threads data via Meta's LERS portal at facebook.com/records: preservation, records requests, and emergencies.
Open guideTelegram Law Enforcement Data Request: How to Investigate Telegram
Telegram has no LERS portal — police request data by email under legal process. Identifiers, the data provided (IP, phone), and India's IT Rules timeline.
Open guideApple Law Enforcement Portal: Police Data Request Guide (iCloud)
How police request Apple and iCloud data via the Apple Law Enforcement Portal (lep.apple.com): preservation, emergency disclosure, and the warrant rule.
Open guideLaw Enforcement Data Requests: Platform-by-Platform LERS Guide
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.
Open guideWhat Is LERS? Law-Enforcement Response Systems, Explained
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.
Open guideTikTok Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
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.
Open guideBinance LERS Portal: Police & Government Data Request Guide
How authorised police and government officials request data from Binance: the global Government Law Enforcement Request System (LERS) via Kodex, what to submit, and how India routes Binance requests through the I4C Sahyog Portal.
Open guideUber Law Enforcement Portal (LERT): Police & Government Data Request Guide
How authorised police and government officials request data from Uber: the Law Enforcement Request Tool (LERT) at lert.uber.com — request types, the safety review, what to submit step by step, and how India's I4C Sahyog Portal fits in.
Open guideX (Twitter) Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Data Request Guide
How authorised police and government agencies obtain user data from X Corp.: the legal request portal, data tiers, EDR process, and India's MLAT route.
Open guideDiscord Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How authorised law enforcement and government agencies lawfully obtain user data from Discord: the Kodex portal, data tiers, emergency requests, and India's MLAT process.
Open guideSnapchat Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How police and government agencies lawfully obtain Snapchat data: Snap's LESS portal, the subpoena/2703(d)/warrant tiers, preservation, and India's MLAT route.
Open guideMicrosoft Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How police and government agencies request Microsoft consumer account data (Outlook, OneDrive, Xbox): the legal process, the LE portal, emergencies, and India's MLAT route.
Open guideAmazon, AWS & Ring Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How police request Amazon, AWS and Ring data: account records, AWS account attribution, and Ring footage (warrant since 2024), plus India's MLAT route.
Open guideRoblox Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How police request Roblox data: the LE portal, the subpoena, court-order and warrant tiers, chat logs, NCMEC child-safety, emergencies, and India's route.
Open guideCash App Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How police request Cash App (Block) records: identity and transaction data, Bitcoin activity, the Oakland LE team, preservation, and India's route.
Open guideReddit Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How police and government agencies request Reddit account data: the subpoena, court-order and warrant tiers, preservation, emergencies, and India's MLAT route.
Open guideRevolut Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How police request Revolut records: UK production orders and the Lithuania (EU) route, KYC and transaction data, freezes, and India's MLAT path.
Open guidePayPal & Venmo Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How police request PayPal and Venmo records: subscriber/KYC data by subpoena, full transaction history by warrant, preservation, and India's fast-freeze route.
Open guideSignal Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
What law enforcement can get from Signal: only the account registration and last-connection dates, and why the seized device, not Signal's servers, holds the evidence.
Open guideCloudflare Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How investigators work with Cloudflare: why it points you to the hosting provider rather than the content, its abuse versus legal-process channels, emergency disclosure, customer-notice policy, and the MLAT route for non-US agencies.
Open guideCoinbase Law Enforcement Guide: How Police Request Data (LERS)
How police, prosecutors and cybercrime investigators worldwide request data from Coinbase: its law-enforcement portal, preservation versus production, emergency disclosure, MLAT for foreign agencies, account freezes and the FATF Travel Rule.
Open guideKraken Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide (LERS)
How police, prosecutors and cybercrime investigators request data from Kraken (Payward). Covers Kraken's legal-request channel, data it can produce, preservation versus production, emergency disclosure, freezes, MLAT for non-US officers and the FATF Travel Rule.
Open guideWeChat Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
A candid reference for investigators on requesting WeChat and Weixin data from Tencent: the mainland-China vs international data split, why most content is unreachable, MLAT realities, emergency channels, and the device-level alternatives that actually work.
Open guideDigitalOcean Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How police, prosecutors and cybercrime investigators can obtain subscriber records, server content and logs from DigitalOcean, covering abuse reports, preservation, subpoenas, court orders, search warrants, emergency disclosure and the request portal.
Open guideOracle Cloud Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How police, prosecutors and government investigators request data from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: the processor-vs-controller model, redirect-to-customer policy, what Oracle holds directly, US legal thresholds, customer notice and foreign (MLAT) requests.
Open guideOVHcloud Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How police, prosecutors and cybercrime investigators obtain customer, server and connection data from OVHcloud, the French cloud provider, including why its EU legal route differs sharply from US providers and which instrument foreign agencies must use.
Open guideGoogle & Gmail Law Enforcement Data Request (LERS): Police & Government Guide
How police use Google's LERS portal at lers.google.com: register your agency, the subpoena, court-order and warrant ladder, preservation, and emergencies.
Open guideZelle Law Enforcement Requests: How Police Get Zelle Records (Early Warning Services + the Banks)
Zelle has no law-enforcement portal. This guide explains the dual-track legal process U.S. investigators must use: a subpoena to Early Warning Services for network transaction metadata, plus separate legal process served on the sending and receiving banks for account and identity data.
Open guideLinkedIn Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide (BEC & Employment Scams)
How authorised investigators request LinkedIn member data — submitted through LinkedIn's Kodex portal. Covers the subpoena-vs-warrant ladder (messages and connections need a warrant), preservation, emergency disclosure, and why LinkedIn matters for BEC and fake-recruiter investigations.
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