For all its flaws, the US is still far ahead of China and Russia on these issues. The recent rhetoric has presents the US as the worst offender of all when in

For all its flaws, the US is still far ahead of China and Russia on these issues. The recent rhetoric has presents the US as the worst offender of all when in practice it's probably better than anyone else who has the power to do these things (including the UK). What if you take the US position at face value? There is oversight, and there are real and serious threats from terrorism and cyberattacks. Is it good to have a massive secret signals collection apparatus? No. Is it necessary? We don't know and nobody is even discussing that because we're all too busy bashing the US.