Distortion. That's not Google spying on people. The guy use Orkut, a social network website, surely there's his account information there.

The personal data that is handed over is email address of the account. It's probably a privacy violation if it's really that hard to find out someone's email address once you know his social network account, but it's not spying on people.

Google OWNS Orkut, in fact, it says so on the 2nd line:

Google's Orkut social networking site

Here is the same story on TechCrunch showing how Google provided more than just an email address:

The owner of the email id Rahul Vaid was traced, using information supplied by Google, to Chakarpur in Gurgaon city of Haryana.

http://techcrunch.com/2008/05/18/hit-pause-on-the-evil-butto...

Yes, Google own Orkut.

That makes it even less sensible to call Google "spying" on people when one signup for Google's social network.