Sure, if you can say that hundreds of millions of people can simultaneously be specifically investigated.
> We know that all corporations that had their inter-datacenter networks compromised have encrypted traffic on those links, making that a non-issue.
Actually, we know that they targeted the interlinks where encryption was removed and added back - giving plaintext (if you are referring to Google). If you remember after the Snowden exposures related to this hacking there was an industry wide call to encrypt data in transit - this very thing implies it was not the case before.
> The data-gifting is a figment of your imagination. Nobody will go out of their way to make their own data accessible to a third party for free, and these Internet companies in particular wouldn't share it with anybody.
Please familiarize yourself with the associated stored communication and service provider laws and data sharing programs.
> We know that all corporations that had their inter-datacenter networks compromised have encrypted traffic on those links, making that a non-issue.
Actually, we know that they targeted the interlinks where encryption was removed and added back - giving plaintext (if you are referring to Google). If you remember after the Snowden exposures related to this hacking there was an industry wide call to encrypt data in transit - this very thing implies it was not the case before.
> The data-gifting is a figment of your imagination. Nobody will go out of their way to make their own data accessible to a third party for free, and these Internet companies in particular wouldn't share it with anybody.
Please familiarize yourself with the associated stored communication and service provider laws and data sharing programs.