[andai]

Doesn't "receiving surveillance data about your citizens that your allies collected for you" also count as spying on your own citizens?

I'm not a lawyer but...

"You spied on me!" -"Relax, sweetheart... Of course I didn't spy on you. I got Mike to spy on you. Hey Mike!"

[sylos]

Unfortunately the lawyers did argue and it's legal. They really dug in to the wording and not the spirit of the law