<p>Under current law, there's a fairly low standard for law enforcement to access your e-mail.</p><p>The United States remains far ahead of all governments who request user information from Google, according to the company's latest Transparency Report (July through December 2012) which was released on Wednesday.</p><p>American government agencies (including federal, state, and local authorities) made over 8,400 requests for nearly 15,000 accountsfar exceeding India, the next largest country in terms of information requests. In 88 percent of those queries, Google complied with at least some, if not all, of the requests.</p><p>For the first time, the search giant is also breaking down the type of legal requests that were made.</p><p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/google-stands-up-for-gmail-users-requires-cops-to-get-a-warrant/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://theweek.com/article/index/239220/googles-government-snooping-data-dump-by-the-numbers">Google&#039;s government-snooping data dump: By the numbers</a> (The Week Magazine)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dpg2Hv4_x3I1yTMVDsY1ZrFrDV6nM&ned=us">91 additional articles.</a></p>