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I actually thought it was pretty high. That's like 25 times per day Google is sending search information to law enforcement. One thing I do hope is that they are requiring a judge to sign off on these like wiretaps. I'd worry about a jealous husband in law enforcement trying to find out what his ex-gf is up to.

What I find kind of surprising is I've heard of very few cases that have used this information. They certainly never use it on Law & Order.

Most of these are likely civil warrants.

And, yes, you would need a judge to sign off on these. Google (more than most companies) are particularly anal (and rightly so) about disclosures such as these.

This is the number of request by agencies that bothered to get warrants.

It doesn't include three-letter-agencies that have their own access.

i was surprised they save my search history. :naive: is there even any legitimate use for that?

any ways to prevent that without making googling less easy?

Pretty sure you can turn off your search history in your account settings.