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Legal processes take priority over virtually anything else; be assured that every large company has gotten and responded to valid legal process before these dow
by benlivengood 6y ago
Legal processes take priority over virtually anything else; be assured that every large company has gotten and responded to valid legal process before these download tools were available.
Just look at Google's [transparency report](https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview?hl=en https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview?hl=...) which shows requests back to mid/late 2000.
Additionally, the scope of what's provided in response to legal process depends heavily on who and what was requested and so the software is far more complex than "download all the user's data". Investigators often aren't aware of what data these companies store and if it's not specifically requested then it's not provided. Lawyers basically copy and paste their last successful warrant/wiretap/whatever and send it to the judge because that's how the legal system works.
- raldi 6y agoI don’t disagree with any of that. The Google Takeout interface makes it very easy for the user (or person responding to a search warrant) to pick and choose exactly what data to zip up.