Cory Doctorow is rightfully enraged:
This is all downside. If Google complies with the order, it will constitute a privacy breach on a scale never before seen. If they don’t comply with the order, it will starve competitors of the one tiny drop of hope that Judge Mehta squeezed out of his pen. It’s a catastrophe. An utter, total catastrophe. It has zero redeeming qualities. Hope you like enshittification, folks, because Judge Mehta just handed Google an eternal licence to enshittify the entire fucking internet.
This is by design. The United States will do anything to make it easier to surveil you (American or not), “Voyeurism fetish” might be our next constitutional amendment. Vote, but ultimately your only protection is to get really good at using privacy tools. Donate to them if you have the means.