I routinely receive email messages from gmail that do not render in standard html mail clients and with attachments that are hosted on google servers (where they presumably expire and are available for easier bulk-surveillance use cases).
It also bears repeating that the big cloud vendors all supported mandating the government backdoors you mention.
As far as I can tell, it was a regulatory capture move, where they wanted to have the power that comes from spying on + selectively informing on their customers, but they wanted to make sure that no companies that serve the US market could provide meaningfully better privacy or security:
> The CLOUD Act received support from Department of Justice and of major technology companies like Microsoft, AWS, Apple, and Google.[12][13] The bill was criticized by several civil rights groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch. These groups argued that the bill stripped away Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures, since the government could enter into data rights sharing agreements with foreign countries and bypass U.S. courts, and affected users would not have to be notified when such warrants were issued.[13][14] Some of these groups feared the government would not fully review requests from foreign countries for their citizens' stored on servers in the U.S., potentially allowing such data to be used in bad faith in those countries.[15]
It also bears repeating that the big cloud vendors all supported mandating the government backdoors you mention.
As far as I can tell, it was a regulatory capture move, where they wanted to have the power that comes from spying on + selectively informing on their customers, but they wanted to make sure that no companies that serve the US market could provide meaningfully better privacy or security:
> The CLOUD Act received support from Department of Justice and of major technology companies like Microsoft, AWS, Apple, and Google.[12][13] The bill was criticized by several civil rights groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch. These groups argued that the bill stripped away Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures, since the government could enter into data rights sharing agreements with foreign countries and bypass U.S. courts, and affected users would not have to be notified when such warrants were issued.[13][14] Some of these groups feared the government would not fully review requests from foreign countries for their citizens' stored on servers in the U.S., potentially allowing such data to be used in bad faith in those countries.[15]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act