I've always believed this to be true. They do it in US, too, and probably in a few more countries like India and Saudi Arabia, and maybe some African ones, too - and possibly even UK. It's just too bad they aren't going to come out and admit it, and say which governments asked them to do this, and how many requests for people's logs have they received - the way Google does it. As a company that's supposed to be beholden first and foremost to its users, that's the least they could do.
This is why to me Google is still a much more trustworthy company than Microsoft. Microsoft with all of this and all of their hateful campaigns against competitors, and hiring other companies in secret to throw dirt on others either in public or to convince politicians about something. It's just a much shadier company. I wish they would change. But I'm not seeing that happening anytime soon, at least not until Ballmer, the "salesman", is out and they get a much different CEO with different kind of thinking and ethics.
This is why to me Google is still a much more trustworthy company than Microsoft. Microsoft with all of this and all of their hateful campaigns against competitors, and hiring other companies in secret to throw dirt on others either in public or to convince politicians about something. It's just a much shadier company. I wish they would change. But I'm not seeing that happening anytime soon, at least not until Ballmer, the "salesman", is out and they get a much different CEO with different kind of thinking and ethics.