agreed, look at the top comment thread, its full of political discussions about why its okay for one country to do something but not the other...
The real solution is that we should all have privacy. Encoded in law, with serious penalties. and that no country should be able to do what is described.
How long do you think such a sweeping privacy law would take to plan, write, and pass? Do you think they'd get it right? What might the fallout of such a law be?
It will take couple years, but many global companies have already faced that with Europe's GDPR legislation. Only problem with GDPR is, that fines seems to be too low.
The real solution is that we should all have privacy. Encoded in law, with serious penalties. and that no country should be able to do what is described.