I also remember when it happened. Google put out a blog post about it when it was discovered, apologizing for having the logs turned on and promising to delete

I also remember when it happened. Google put out a blog post about it when it was discovered, apologizing for having the logs turned on and promising to delete the data. It was only months later that suddenly websites were reporting on it, and then even more months before any governments decided to do anything about it. If Google hadn't made that blog post, I don't think anyone would have known about it in the first place.