And how is this mass surveilance in US/UK/other "free and democratic" countries different from what was happening in USSR way back? Western propoganda was all o

And how is this mass surveilance in US/UK/other "free and democratic" countries different from what was happening in USSR way back? Western propoganda was all over it, but I suspect that it was just a way to hide the real threat (own government). Since USSR ceased to exist few attempts have been made to invent a new threat, but that worked only partially... The reality is, try as we might, there is no way to regain full privacy. Ever.