Not everyone knows about the Google service called “Google Takeout”. This is a very important section that offers the possibility to download all the data of a Google account. In this article, let’s see together what it is possible to certify with legal value to present evidence or support a legal case.
Important – Remote-only policy. We work exclusively via online exports and remote acquisitions. We do not request your device, nor do we perform in-lab imaging. Access to private areas (if needed) is carried out only under a digital legal mandate signed by the account owner. We never bypass protections or access data you are not lawfully entitled to view.
First let’s see how to reach this section. After logging into your Google account, just go to this address: https://takeout.google.com/.
There are over 50 Google services for which it is possible to export data. Here are some:
“Access Log Activity” () – Collection of account activity logs
Android Device Configuration Service – Android device attributes, performance data, software versions, and account identifiers.
Arts & Culture – Favorites and galleries you’ve created on Google Arts & Culture.
Blogger – Your Blogger blogs, including posts, pages, comments and videos, as well as settings and your Blogger profile.
Calendar – Your calendar data in iCalendar format
Chrome – Bookmarks, history, and other settings from Chrome
Classic Sites – The content and attachments of your sites created in Classic Sites
Classroom – Your Classroom classes, posts, submissions, and rosters
Contacts – Contacts and contact photos you added yourself, as well as contacts saved from your interactions in Google products like Gmail.
Crisis User Reports – Information provided to help others during crises
Data Shared for Research – Responses saved with your Google Account from your participation in Google research studies and projects.
Drive – Files you own that have been stored in your My Drive and Computers.
Fit – Your Google Fit data, including your workouts, sleep data, and daily metrics like steps and distance.
“Google Account” () – Data about registration and account activity.
Google Business Profile – All data related to your business
Google Chat – The users, groups, conversation history and attachments for your Google Chat domain.
Google Cloud Search – Content metadata ingested as part of Google Cloud Search indexing flow, and user search activity data
Google Developers – Records of your Developer Profile and the activity associated with it.
Google Help Communities – Your ask and reply contributions to the Google Help Communities including text and images posted
Google Pay – Your saved passes, activity using virtual account numbers, and transaction history from Google services, like Play and YouTube and peer to peer payments, in the Google Pay app.
Google Photos – Your photos and videos from Google Photos.
Google Play Books – The titles and authors of your purchased and uploaded books in Google Play Books, plus notes and bookmarks.
Google Play Console – Developer information for your Android Apps
Google Play Games Services – Data, including achievements and scores, from games you play.
Google Play Movies & TV – Your Google Play Movies & TV preferences, services, watchlist, and ratings.
Google Play Store – Data about your app installs, ratings, and orders
Google Shopping – Google Shopping order history, loyalty, addresses and reviews.
Google Translator Toolkit – Documents you have in your Google Translator Toolkit.
Google Workspace Marketplace – Metadata which describes an application published in Google Workspace Marketplace.
Groups – Data for your usage of Google Groups and for Google Groups that you own.
Hangouts – Your sent attachments from Hangouts.
Hangouts on Air – Questions you asked or owned in the Hangouts on Air Q&A app.
Home App – Device, room, home and history information from the Home App.
Keep – Notes and media attachments stored in Google Keep
Mail – Messages and attachments in your Gmail account in MBOX format. User settings from your Gmail account in JSON format
Maps – Your preferences and personal places in Maps
Maps (your places) – Records of your starred places and place reviews.
My Activity – Records of your activity data, along with image and audio attachments.
My Maps – Maps, layers, features and media stored in your My Maps.
News – Data about the magazines, categories, and sources you are interested in.
Phone Audio – Phone audio and transcriptions
Pinpoint – Your data from Pinpoint, including files you have uploaded
Profile – Settings and images from your Google profile.
Purchases & Reservations – Your purchases and reservations made using Search, Maps, and the Assistant.
Reminders – Reminders that you created with Google.
Saved – Collections of saved links (images, places, web pages, etc.) from Google Search and Maps
Search Contributions – Your ratings, reviews, comments and other contributions to Google Search
Street View – Images and videos you have uploaded to Google Street View.
Tasks – Data for your open and completed tasks.
Voice – Your saved Google Voice call history, messages and voicemails as well as current linked numbers.
YouTube and YouTube Music – Watch and search history, videos, comments and other content you’ve created on YouTube and YouTube Music
Google Takeout’s most important Legal Certifications (remote)
Among these sections, some are particularly valuable from a legal point of view for remote certification:
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“Access Log Activity” () and “Google Account” () – used to document unauthorized access to your account (IPs, timestamps, sessions).
Request a certification here: Account Abusive Access Certification [click here]. -
Mail (Gmail/MBOX) – certify the full content of an email message (headers, body, attachments) with legal value.
Request a certification here: Online Email Certification [click here]. -
Google Chat – certify conversations and attachments (where accessible) for evidentiary use.
See our Social Network Content Certification or dedicated chat services. -
Drive / Docs / Sheets – certify files and document versions present in your account (with metadata and timestamps).
See Web Page Certification with Files / Original Authorship Certification. -
Google Photos – certify photos and videos with associated metadata (e.g., EXIF where present).
See Analysis and Certification of Fake Photos and Videos. -
My Activity – certify account activity records relevant to your case (queries, app activity, interactions), when lawful and proportionate.
Note: We do not offer Google Location History certification on this site, because it requires a device-based extraction in lab. Our services here are remote-only and rely on official online exports provided by the account owner.
Delivery and legal guarantees. Your Takeout export (e.g., .zip with JSON/MBOX/CSV) is forensically acquired and sealed into a Certified Copy with digital signature and a qualified EU timestamp (eIDAS), ensuring integrity and date-certainty. On request, we can apply an international timestamp suitable for recognition worldwide. Optional SHA-256 hash attestation and a capture video are available. Evidence is delivered in a sealed .zip.p7m or .tsd container, plus a private independent mirror link for verification by courts or law enforcement.
