I don't know if it's just me, but this article seems to give a creepy "the USA is the only that matters" vibe. For instance, the sentence "[...] while this may

I don't know if it's just me, but this article seems to give a creepy "the USA is the only that matters" vibe. For instance, the sentence "[...] while this may be handy for privacy-savvy Americans, it can make it much harder for the government and law enforcement to fight terrorists and criminals [...]" sounds as if only privacy-savvy USA citizens matter, while privacy-savvy people from the rest of the world can get lost. Also, the idea of a foreign country being able to disrupt transactions all over the world, with the people having no recourse other than appealing to said foreign country, is creepy. If someone in Austria wants to send money to Brazil, that should be a matter only between Austria and Brazil (or perhaps the rest of the Eurozone, since their currency is shared), and a third-party country shouldn't be able to arbitrarily interfere on a whim.