Another SWIFT snafu waiting to happen

There has been already a recent example of this: the infamous SWIFT case. The US government didn't care if the information was from another country, it just asked for it, and took it.

And SWIFT got in real trouble because the move is illegal under EU law.

Now here the records were protected by law, but the "physical possession" definition was used to acquire that info. Now imagine Gmail / Google Spreadsheets et al, where there is no such provision; your data is for all purposes in the US Gov't hands. Happy data mining!