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by bangaladore 220 days ago
A company of what country would you prefer?

Everyone likes to dunk on the US, but I doubt you could provide a single example of a country that is certainly a better alternative (to be clear I believe many of the west up in the same boat).

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A European one. Pulling the kind of tricks the NSA does is considerably harder if you don’t have a secret court with secret orders.
You might want to look into what GCHQ, DGSE, and BND (as examples) actually do. Europe is not some surveillance-free zone.