Comment by jollybean

There were 7 instances in the entire year where this happened.

Folks - while it's definitely disturbing from a legal perspective and needs to be addressed 'proportionality' is also something we have to consider.

If this only happened '7 times' in a year, I'm doubtful this is arbitrary handing over of data.

'Real Life' is complicated, and sometimes processes don't line up as we would like. Neither Google nor the Police are corrupted institutions, rather, they can in some instances do things we don't want them to or that are actually bad. Meaning, I suggest in all likelihood there was likely some kind of material reason fore these '7 disclosures'. They used the term 'emergency' and I buy it.

What we need to do is close the loophole and adapt the judicial process so as to be able to accomodate such situations.

People are yelling about 'Orwell' - well that Dysoptia takes more than '7 times a year' in a nation of 350M to have surveillance abused on them. Again, needs to be sorted out, but we have to contextualise this.