One thing I've noticed is that many HN users don't believe that courts can compel companies to take positive actions to surveil their customers. This incident illustrates that, yes, courts can compel companies to keep logs even if their infrastructure is built to not keep them at all.

We cannot rely on what companies say about their privacy guarantees, or rely on vendors' technical analysis of their own black box systems, because a simple court order can essentially be a backdoor.