Are you sure? Everything from the Snowden disclosures tell us otherwise. Take the US for instance, in which the government ramped up its surveillance capabiliti

Are you sure? Everything from the Snowden disclosures tell us otherwise. Take the US for instance, in which the government ramped up its surveillance capabilities in ways they knew were illegal. They had to rely on secret interpretation of the law to "justify" their actions, an interpretation that even the author of the law was reportedly not aware of. That's no accident. Instead, it was directed by the highest ranks of government who knew very well what they were getting into. Similar story for other countries as well, apart from totalitarian regimes that does the same thing openly.