The thing is, it can get worse, at the moment the USA isn't "bad by default" unlike the UK, Egypt, Iran, China, New Zealand. The constitution of the United Stat

The thing is, it can get worse, at the moment the USA isn't "bad by default" unlike the UK, Egypt, Iran, China, New Zealand. The constitution of the United States still hampers the progress towards the totalitarian surveillance state some people seem to want to create. China, UK, etc, all lack any "protection" from government simply saying "it's legal because we say it is". GCHQ don't need permission because the UK government was able to simply say "we have the right, because we're the government", the same is true in most countries. As for end to end crypto, all that does in the age of PRISM, is flag everything you do as "possible target" and increase the level of attention you receive from such mass surveillance machinery. Sad but true. Your communication may be protected but you are not.