I'm getting tired of this charade that this is the first time the big tech dragnet is being used to harm those caught in it. They've been handing data over to foreign and domestic law enforcement for a long time [1], including for what would be constitutionally protected speech in the US [2,3,4,5], so I'm sure they'll be able to handle a few extra requests - I don't see why there would be a "mess".

[1] https://nypost.com/2021/06/23/how-big-tech-created-a-data-tr...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/world/europe/germany-36-a...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/jun/13/jail-someone-for...

[4] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/geofence-warrants-thre...

[5] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-56364...