GDS’s GA Premium account contractually prevents Google from investigating the data
Does it prevent US government from getting this data with a court order?
Does it prevent US government from getting this data with a court order?
It's not about you trusting somebody to handle the data. It's just that the data should not exist at all outside of you and the gov.
As soon as the data exists somewhere else, there is a way to misuse it and a chance it will happen. In todays word, those don't even require a lot of imagination to find because it already happened and is currently happening.
Of course not. Also it does not prevent governments and other organizations from illegally extracting that data from Google, as it happened.
Even if they could, they wouldn't be able to find it.
Furthermore, it is often possible to de-anonymize data especially if you have an extensive knowledge of users and their data such as google. But even then, you can also de-anonymize data
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak08netflix.pdf
https://www.wired.com/2007/12/why-anonymous-data-sometimes-i...
When a customer of Analytics requests IP address anonymization, Analytics anonymizes the address as soon as technically feasible at the earliest possible stage of the collection network. The IP anonymization feature in Analytics sets the last octet of IPv4 user IP addresses and the last 80 bits of IPv6 addresses to zeros in memory shortly after being sent to the Analytics Collection Network. The full IP address is never written to disk in this case.