>Google received requests for user information for about 900,000 accounts
I'm responsible for a few of those btw. All for e-mails clearly related to malware operations, to help with the investigation. It's not like anyone cares what John Doe talks about with his grandma and Netflix support. Well, maybe some do, but that's probably 1% of that 900k.
This is the inescepable tradeoff. You either have a system for investigating abuse (and in this case it's tech abuse, there's also physical crime), or you have a system that protects the privacy of everyone.
I sleep like a baby knowing a state can submit subpoenas for my information. And I wouldn't sleep like a baby using a system that not only irreversibly encrypts contents, but neuters the admin capabilities such that it's not even possible to know the headers of messages sent, like telegram or protonmail, knowing that I would give plausible deniability by pooling with cyber and non cybercriminals.
I'm responsible for a few of those btw. All for e-mails clearly related to malware operations, to help with the investigation. It's not like anyone cares what John Doe talks about with his grandma and Netflix support. Well, maybe some do, but that's probably 1% of that 900k.