The slight fallacy in the article (and in general on this topic) is the thinking Google are especially unique in receiving these orders. The truth is any large

The slight fallacy in the article (and in general on this topic) is the thinking Google are especially unique in receiving these orders. The truth is any large service provider is getting as many, it's just the modern version of forced disclosure. A lot of the Google orders will be civil disclosure. That is mostly because in criminal cases there is more leeway for seizing the physical machines - which produces better results (from the perspective of court evidence). But when you get to the ISP level they will be dealing with all manner of criminal/civil requests for IP log data. Just some perspective (I won't comment my opinion on it)