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I think the US is much more likely to violate the privacy of a random 3rd party than Russia, absolutely. How many Kenyans have their data sitting in NSA servers
by alexanderstears 9y ago
I think the US is much more likely to violate the privacy of a random 3rd party than Russia, absolutely. How many Kenyans have their data sitting in NSA servers? I bet it's more than Kenyans on the FSB's servers.
I don't know, but I would be surprised of Russia even captured 1% of the data that the NSA captures routinely (or was capturing at the height of its excess).
Additionally, Russia seems to keep quiet about what they do which is lying by omission at worse. A lot of US security officials have lied under oath about what the US is doing - I think it's more important to expose active and direct and popular lies than incidental lies.
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoFair point. I wasn't looking at it that way, though. I was trying to say that Russia is more likely to violate a Russian's privacy than the US is to violate an American's privacy. Yes, the NSA may well have the American's communications on their servers (though they are not supposed to unless it left the country), but the FSB probably has the Russian's communications, and seems to me considerably more likely to examine them - or to more actively spy on the Russian citizen.