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This isn't about helping law enforcement. Here's the tell:

   Faced with the extended delays under the MLAT process, some countries are 
   now asserting that their laws apply to companies and individuals outside of 
   their borders. Countries asserting extraterritorial authority potentially 
   put companies in an untenable situation where we risk violating either the 
   law of the requesting country or the law of the country where we are 
   headquartered.
   [...]
   We are also seeing various proposals to require companies to store data 
   within local borders as a means to gain easier access.

It's about two things:

1 - Google doesn't want to be in the middle of Country X and the US where the laws conflict;

2 - More worryingly, countries are requiring data be kept within their borders and hence subject to their laws. This complicates google's business of monetizing people's data.



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