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Re:Motel 6 to Pay $12M after Improperly Giving Guest Lists t... by toyg on Friday April 05, 2019 @09:35PM (#19588597)
> I thought companies like Twitter and Google routinely rebuffed requests for information

Some, maybe. Definitely not all. Google reportedly has a system to let authorities access GMail. Similarly, Microsoft has been cooperating from pre-antitrust times, let alone now. And these are the richest companies in the world, with market caps in the hundreds of billions; they can afford to pay legions of top-level lawyers for decades-long litigation. Motel 6 in comparison is small beer; they were sold for less than 2$bn a few years ago.

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Re:Motel 6 to Pay $12M after Improperly Giving Guest Lists t... by evgen on Saturday April 06, 2019 @06:01AM (#19590067)
Large internet companies have a system that manages the process for LEO access, but your implication that they offer a "here's your login creds, grab whatever data you want" system is incorrect.

Google probably receives more subpoenas per hour than most companies receive over their entire lifetime, so of course they have a portal for handling such requests and managing the process.

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