I think it's that way everywhere. When I talked to people about it in Switzerland they often respond with something like "this isn't a problem here, this is $co

I think it's that way everywhere. When I talked to people about it in Switzerland they often respond with something like "this isn't a problem here, this is $country_where_i_live_in they wouldn't abuse their powers. The NSA? Sure THEY are horrible, but in $country_where_i_live_in, nah, they wouldn't do stuff like that. That's impossible." You can point out that the last time they did (and got caught) was only 26 years ago [0]. They don't care. I'm not sure there's anything we can do about it. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_files_scandal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_files_scandal