Personally speaking, I'm not a fan of the Patriot Act. I've expressed my opinion, e.g. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-and-privacy/#comment-102824 http://w

Personally speaking, I'm not a fan of the Patriot Act. I've expressed my opinion, e.g. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-and-privacy/#comment-102824 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-and-privacy/#comment-10... and https://profiles.google.com/109412257237874861202/posts/GXPrF1geP5d https://profiles.google.com/109412257237874861202/posts/GXPr... before. If you haven't seen it, we released an update to our government transparency report today: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20074661-93/google-gets-most-requests-for-user-data-from-u.s/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20074661-93/google-gets-mos... The report tells which governments send us the most requests. Personally, I'd like it if Google took a more visible stand against the Patriot Act, but the government transparency report is still a bigger step than most other major companies I can think of offhand.