<i>I can only speak for here</i><p>Well, I'm not actually American, but seeing that Google is, and that's where they store all their data, and as such both they and it is subject to US law, I was speaking for there.<p><i>a subphoena through the normal courts</i><p>Why on earth would they get a subpoena? Do you know what an NSL is? Not that they even need that, apparently. Have a read of this:<p><a href="http://reason.com/blog/2010/01/20/why-use-a-national-security-le" rel="nofollow">http://reason.com/blog/2010/01/20/why-use-a-national-securit...</a><p><i>Dont you think such a massive conspiracy would be fairly quick to come to light</i><p>None of this is conspiracy, though it might have sounded like that even 10 years ago. It's common knowledge. Most privacy-conscious individuals I know, including myself, have been operating under the assumption that interested government organisations have full access to anything stored by any business or government entity, with only the sheer volume of data providing any kind of anonymity.