What bothers me most about the NSA stories is that all the damage control seems to be revolving around not pissing the US citizens off because their data is col

What bothers me most about the NSA stories is that all the damage control seems to be revolving around not pissing the US citizens off because their data is collected. What about the rest of the world? They just have a carte blanche to tap everything from everyone 'regular joe' from outside of the US can't do Jack Shit about it, other than help invent newer and stronger encryption methods, since all our governments have their arms up the US's ass.