Google&#x27;s business model is about data mining and targeted advertising, not about selling someone&#x27;s private, identifiable data. That&#x27;s a big difference.<p>Actually I trust Google more than anyone else that they do everything they can to keep anyone&#x27;s private data private. The problem is that that doesn&#x27;t help when a government agency walks in with a secret court order, be it legitimate or illegitimate.<p>That&#x27;s why european end users (and corporations w&#x2F; valuable IP) walk away from US based cloud providers or even want to go back to being all self hosted. You can&#x27;t be 100% sure about your data safety with them and you&#x27;ll be in deep trouble with your own customers if a data breach - be it lawful under US law, but not under european law - should happen.