[LikelyABurner]

I fiercely despise Google and want them to go out of business legitimately, but this argument is right up there with “the defendant used encryption, that proves they must have child porn on their computer Your Honor!”

It is not the responsibility of any company to make it easier for prosecutors to CTRL-F their emails to indict them, especially given how prosecutors can and will go on fishing expeditions.

[YurgenJurgensen]

Using encryption is not uncommon. This particular use of language may be uncommon (I don't know if it is, that's something for the prosecution to demonstrate). So if it is, the equivalent metaphor would be some extraordinary lengths taken to conceal data, like perhaps "The police found empty bags that once contained powdered iron oxide and aluminium in the defendant's house, their desktop computer was found to have recently been moved and contained more SATA connectors than necessary for the components it contained, and there was a suspicious number of melted computer parts and HDD caddy screws in their garbage."