Which is still pretty flexible language. "Oh, it's not open-ended access, it's limited to the conditions in the authorization..."

The Verizon order was limited to 3 months, for example, which is hardly open-ended... except that it presumably got re-upped every three months.

Read the NEXT SENTENCE! "Until this week’s reports, we had never heard of the broad type of order that Verizon received—an order that appears to have required them to hand over millions of users’ call records."

AND THE TWO AFTER THAT: "We were very surprised to learn that such broad orders exist. Any suggestion that Google is disclosing information about our users’ Internet activity on such a scale is completely false."

"NEXT SENTENCE": I don't think they're a telco with millions of users, Goggle Voice is pretty small, right?

The two after that look like a pretty good denial, though.

It is very possible that Google is lying.

Of course it is, but in this conversation that is moving the goalposts. And if we had to address every possibility, very little progress would ever be made in any discussion.

Then why bother parsing their language or even reading their blog posts?

He also says: "Until this week’s reports, we had never heard of the broad type of order that Verizon received... We were very surprised to learn that such broad orders exist. Any suggestion that Google is disclosing information about our users’ Internet activity on such a scale is completely false."

No, its pretty clearly written to me. Larry Page is genuinely surprised that this program thinks it has access to Google data on demand.