The problem seems, to me, to be one of jurisdiction and international legal privacy differences. US corps like Google want to be able to provide services to pe

The problem seems, to me, to be one of jurisdiction and international legal privacy differences. US corps like Google want to be able to provide services to people all around the world. If they can be compelled by a judge in any country to provide data on any user, that could cause a lot of problems. for example say a user in Germany makes a deal with a user in the USA which then goes bad and the case is heard in the US. In Germany the privacy laws are different and could prevent the data from being used in the case. Can a US judge require that data to be produced? Next step in the chain, a russian user and a US user have a deal, which goes bad, and a russian court requires the data from the US user to be provided. Should it? Now the obvious argument here is one of american exceptionalism, that google is a US company and therefore needs only concern itself with US law. Unfortunately that leads down the line of companies in other countries not making use of Google's services as they can't legally allow data they process to be subject to US laws...