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Google has flatly denied that it has fulfilled, or even received, such broad orders http://googleblog.blogspot.ie/2013/06/what.html :

> Until this week’s reports, we had never heard of the broad type of order that Verizon received—an order that appears to have required them to hand over millions of users’ call records. We were very surprised to learn that such broad orders exist. Any suggestion that Google is disclosing information about our users’ Internet activity on such a scale is completely false.

It would also be hard to square Microsoft's statement that

> In addition we only ever comply with orders for requests about specific accounts or identifiers.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2013/Jun13/06-06st... with compliance with a Verizon-style broad order.




NSA and FBI don't even need orders at all for this:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/04/fourth-amendment-em...

"As the law stands now, the authorities may obtain cloud e-mail without a warrant if it is older than 180 days, thanks to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act adopted in 1986."




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