Companies like Facebook go out of their way to try and show that they are protecting their users privacy. For example Facebook has a transparency report disclos

Companies like Facebook go out of their way to try and show that they are protecting their users privacy. For example Facebook has a transparency report disclosing requests from governments: https://transparency.fb.com/data/government-data-requests https://transparency.fb.com/data/government-data-requests If they are actively sending data to governments without a forced legal request then this is very much a story.