Cloud provider access management documentation
Cloud provider access management products, namely Access Transparency,
Access Approval, and Key Access Justifications, aim to provide you
progressively greater transparency and control over access to your content
stored in Google Cloud.
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Key Access Justifications
use case
Use cases
Trusting your data with Google Cloud
Security and data protection are at the core of how Google Cloud designs and builds its products. This whitepaper provides details about how Google Cloud protects customer data throughout its lifecycle and how it provides customers transparency and control over their data.
Managing data lifecycle
User trust
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Use cases
Privileged access in Google Cloud
This whitepaper provides information about Google's privileged access philosophy.
Privileged access
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Use cases
Overview of administrative access controls
This topic provides an overview of the core underlying principles based on which Google Cloud's administrative access controls are designed.
Administrative access controls
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Use cases
Government requests for Cloud customer data
This whitepaper describes Google's practices around government requests for customer content.
Government requests
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Last updated 2025-06-05 UTC.
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