There is a huge gradient between not obeying the law and what Facebook did and much of that gradient is entirely legal. That Facebook can't be assed to get crea

There is a huge gradient between not obeying the law and what Facebook did and much of that gradient is entirely legal. That Facebook can't be assed to get creative in favor of its users is unsurprising but doesn't make them neutral or excuse their compliance. Meta also seems to have taken zero lessons (e.g. minimizing their access to the data they were asked to provide) from this incident. They not only don't want to avoid something like this happening in the future, they also don't want to avoid being put in a position where they would have to participate in something like this again. That said, being German, I find it deeply painful to hear people posit that not following orders is unreasonable and impossible, especially when even in their own country the majority of people disagrees with the laws in question. If big corporations with expensive legal departments can't be expected to find creative ways to comply with the bare minimum of a law that harms the users who entrust them with their data, maybe it's the corporations who are the problem.