Comment by shadowgovt

A subpoena is based on merely somebody's claim that there's reasonable suspicion of a crime. All this policy by Google does is shift the set of people who are making the decision of what "reasonable suspicion" looks like; one's reaction to that depends on one's relative threat models of judges (and time delay of interacting with judges) vs. Google employees.

FWIW, anyone still doing business with Google probably has a relatively high trust of Google, so that comparison is probably closer to equivalent than many might imagine for Google's users.