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There's no reason to believe Saudi Arabia is alone in surveillance like this. Meet the United States: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/04/tele

• adamt 13y ago
  Furthermore - the US has a big advantage. Many of the companies that handle digital communication services (Facebook, Twitter, Google etc) are US based and have to by law co-operate with the US law enforcement agencies. So if the FBI (or other three-letter agency) wants access to your Facebook or gmail, they can get it via those companies. In countries like Saudi Arabia they don't have the same level of power/control so they have to look at intercepting & blocking the traffic.