Can, Should, and Will Only Due So With A Valid Court Order are very different things.

Sure they can, but how do you think every user of Google products will think if any company out there can say, "oops, didn't mean to send that, google, go fix my screw up and delete that from peoples inboxs."?

Should they do it? Maybe, but again, at this point we only have Goldman Sachs word that they 'should'. Maybe their entire story was fabricated and it was proof sent out by a whistleblower. Maybe it wasn't sent by a whistleblower, but it is proof of illegal activity that should be turned over to the appropriate legal or regulatory agency. We only have the companies word for it, and do companies ever lie about stuff like that?

So Google is going with "Will only due so with a valid court order" on this. Good choice. You won't piss off the customers because a court made you do it, and you won't get yourself in legal trouble because a court made you do it. Yep, this is the right choice if they have any functioning brain cells at all.

There's also a fourth option of just plain refuse. Claim the mail system is sacrosanct and it won't be messed with. Of course there are two big problems with this. First is almost nobody will believe you. Second is you are then looking at a big as legal battle you probably won't win because you are not the federal government. That's why I didn't list this one in the beginning, though I did mention it at the end to avoid having a million responses pointing this one out.

That's my say, disagree or whatever ;)

Good point. What if it's proof of illegal activity. The account holder should forward it to the police, several different news outlets, and wikileaks just in case. ;P

And then do it again using something other than Gmail just in case they put up a filter to prevent that.

As far as I'm concerned, Goldman Sachs totally screwed up by sending confidential information to a member of the public in the first place. Their error is not sufficient reason for Google to panic or violate the trust of their entire user base just to fix someone elses stupidity.

I hate the sound of those whistles

Don't forget to cremate the remains, and mix the ashes with concrete and use it to make blocks that are then dumped into several different deep ocean trenches.

"Life is imperfect."
Yet extraordinarily tenacious and perverse.

I hadn't thought of that yet, but it would totally put a damper on that kind of b.s., even more so if they confiscated the car and phone. (Evidence and all that.)
Though to be honest, I'm morally opposed to confiscation with no intent to return to the proper owners after evidentiary needs are met.

If you have a parking space for renting there, I'm pretty sure that would be illegal. Same if they decided to rent your bedroom to a tourist as a B&B. Your rental agreement provided you with your place (I'm guessing an apartment) and a parking spot. The landlord is not able to then legally rent out to someone else what you are already renting.
ianal, but damn, there are some things that are pretty bloody obvious and well documented to even the public.

It's probably a screw up.
I'm betting they intended to black out everything except a couple of random articles, both definite and indefinite (like the, an, a), but the magic marker ran dry and while that person was looking for a new one in the office supply cabinet, the messenger came by and picked it up with the other requested, but already censored to uselessness documents.

And the stuff that does get through pisses us off enough we often swear to never use that product.

Not unless they sent them Fed Ex. :p

No, not really.
It's got a great strength to weight ratio, but it might be better to say they reduced the effective weight while retaining most of the strength of the material.
The stuff needed for the cable of a tethered satellite needs a lot more than just a great weight to strength ratio, it needs a certain level of strength and resilience.

Look at it this way, if you had a steel component that weighed 1,000lbs and could hold up 20,000lbs and you replaced it with this type of similar to aerogel lattice type steel component, you are looking at a tiny weight (probably) less than 3 lbs, and it could still hold up around 20,000lbs. Of course, if the project needed a component that size that was able to hold up 50,000lbs, neither one would be feasible.
Some people might suggest that you could just make it bigger, but that's often not a feasible idea, even if it is lighter than the usual materials. For one example is why skyscrapers are not made of brick. It doesn't matter how wide your walls of brick would be, after a certain point, the weight of the bricks would crush the lower ones, and then the whole building collapses. The steel reinforced concrete we use can sustain much larger loads, and so is used for tall and heavy projects instead of bricks. Of course tethered satellite has to withstand much greater stresses, whether it's crushing down, pulling up, or swaying to the side. That's why super light but otherwise more conventional materials won't work.

It was decided when they set up the patent systems that since math is universal, no mathematical formulas or algorithms could be patented. No owning 2+2=4 or the far more complex mathematical proof of it either. Math and all it's variations belong to everyone, even if you don't understand it.

Patenting math was considered as ill advised as letting some lout wander into the forest, pick up a pretty leaf, and then patent leaves.
It still is, but some lawyers are really good at obfuscating what they are actually requesting patents for, so watch out for that patent troll sending you a bill for your vegetative violations of his lawful patents.

So what your saying is that Canada doing this is somehow the fault of the USA?

How about, numerous countries try to do this, with one of the most publicised being the USA, though it is deplorable in all cases, even when Canada tries it.

Squads of boomerang throwing 'security specialists'. ;)
Kite fighters whose fighting kits have a special 'fringe' hanging from them that will get tangled in rotors if they get too close.
(Yes, Kite fighting is a thing, has been for a really long time, it's just not popular in most of the world.)
Your own remote controlled aircraft that drops shiny colorful celebratory strands that can conveniently get tangled in rotors.
A horde of people with lasers desperately trying to play with imaginary flying kitties. Do not use on manned aircraft.

I'm sure there are lots of other methods to intentionally or 'accidentally' mess with unwanted aerial surveillance.

A stupid American troll I presume :P