[throwaway15027]

Are there examples of such warrants being issued? This was, more or less, the subject of the big showdown between Apple and the FBI some years ago. The FBI maybe could have won legally but decided to back down. If such warrants were being issued, they eventually would be made public in the resulting criminal prosecutions.

[benlivengood]

Transparency reports from Google[0], Facebook, et al. are strong evidence that these legal processes do in fact get issued.

[0]https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/us-national-...

[throwaway15027]

Of course there’s warrants and FISA warrants issued for Google data. The question is whether they’ve issued a warrant to send a bugged autoupdate, which your link has nothing to do with.

[gaganyaan]

Unless they end up in secretive federal courts, and target a company that doesn't have the deep pockets and media attention of Apple. Then you'd likely hear about it years after your privacy is violated.