Offenbar hosted Google nicht nur, was man der Firma persönlich und direkt mitteilt (zB Gmail), sondern auch, zumindest in den USA, was man an Informationen an den Staat liefert oder liefern muss.
In other words, according to Google, United States state governments have literally handed over our public data to be held and managed by a private company which has well-publicized partnerships with other governments such as China. The data is physically stored in Google’s buildings, on Google’s servers, managed by Google’s employees. This means Google now controls our government’s access to it’s own data.