The key sentence is "Second, we provide user data to governments only in accordance with the law."

If a FISA court ordered government access to the servers, Google would comply. In addition, the court order would gag Google in the interests of "national security" from ever disclosing the existence of the program or the company's involvement.

ok, you're hired. I am in the Baja. stop in and we'll work up a deal

Oh, gosh. Thank-you, khaling. That sounded like a compliment. I think I would make a better muse than reporter. Perhaps a paid consultant poolside with a Mai-tai? Yes? No? Lol. I do wish I had screen-captured the ‘trending now’ list on the left side the screen when you pulled up Google during the campaign season so I could show others what I just explained.

mimi, consider writing an article.

Google has already used it’s resources to benefit this President in an unfair unbalanced way. I saw for myself--the last three months before the 2012 election, Mitt Romney appeared in the top tier of researched terms on a daily basis. Most of the stories were negative. Now Romney wasn’t running against himself, and Obama was extremely popular, right? So where was Obama’s popular news stories? Obama’s name would only appear in the top ten once a week if at all, and often the link was yet to another negative story about Mitt Romney. Even stories suppose to be about Michelle Obama would link to negative stories about Mitt Romney. Google never had my good opinion to lose. I totally believe they are capable of betraying the public trust. They certain have proved to me they are capable of controlling information to pursue a political agenda.