And I still don't like the DRD either. Another thing, hypocritical maybe, even if the EU is being "just as bad" in a certain sense, piggybacking on the US outr

And I still don't like the DRD either. Another thing, hypocritical maybe, even if the EU is being "just as bad" in a certain sense, piggybacking on the US outrage on this topic may help matters in the EU as well. Even if it's just increased privacy-consciousness among the public. For real, like people have pointed out, we already knew about surveillance in the EU months (or longer) before Snowden leaked his info, it was public knowledge and nobody said anything because it wasn't really in the news. Now it is, and some of it may stick to what the EU is doing as well.