Also, rest assured that the US government will continue to put enough pressure on foreign/European governments to continue mass surveillance on their behalf. I

Also, rest assured that the US government will continue to put enough pressure on foreign/European governments to continue mass surveillance on their behalf. If there is no fundamental structural change in the US, the Western World will remain a surveillance society and the current degree of democracy will be so much weakened that the term "democracy" will need to be "redefined".