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To quote myself in another message,

> I've never taken a single lesson in legal or PR and even I can see the big huge holes. They insist on direct access, they insist on servers rather than data and they insist on governments.

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Anything else would be simply untrue. These companies obviously give limited data (not server access, not direct) to the government when required by subpoena and whatnot so they couldn't say "we give no access to any data" or anything like that.

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