1) Wrong. They do know the numbers for other companies, as ranges, which are plenty sufficient for comparison: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/US...

2) Wrong again. We know ranges (see link above) and we don't need to know the exact numbers. All we need to know is that the house is on fire, and we already know that.

> they know nothing about Google

Sigh. See above.

The exact number issue is a red herring. Again, this is simply a PR ploy.