I'm not following -- 2011 was a decade after the Patriot Act was passed. Google had been receiving NSLs for years by that point, which likely used to be much ha

I'm not following -- 2011 was a decade after the Patriot Act was passed. Google had been receiving NSLs for years by that point, which likely used to be much harder to respond to before the creation of Takeout. Now, as soon as Legal signs off, the production of the ZIP file is probably completely automated. And the programmers who made that possible probably believed their code was going to be used solely for their users' data portability. (Disclaimer: Though I used to work there, all of the above is pure speculation.)