[pyre]

  | After the scandal was revealed, and only after it
  | was revealed in an unprecedented act by Snowden,
  | did Google come out in favor of their customers

Was Google not already in court opposing NSLs? Filing with FISA was something that the EFF recently spear-headed.

I'm not saying you should trust Google with all of your secrets, or even all of your data, but it should be an informed decision.

[humanspecies]

We have enough information for an informed decision now, thanks to Edward Snowden.

[pyre]

Right, but saying "Google only starts caring about its users now," is not true. For example, Google challenged the National Security Letters prior to the Snowden leak.