[hornytoad]

Instead of revealing your ignorance, you could read up on ECHELON, which was becoming a bigger issue in Europe already in the 90's, there was an investigation by the European Parliament in 2000/2001, and coincidentally 9/11 is probably the reason why the US&Britain didn't get to bear the cost at the time. Now they are (Boeing, CISCO, IBM, ...) and will probably continue to for some time to come.

[alan_cx]

Given the lack of mass outrage, I think people are still in some sort of denial. Or perhaps its seen as being too huge to really do anything meaningful about. In the UK, politicians are still mostly trying to sort of shrug it off. Even across Europe, there is not real outrage at the fact that the UK, as a sort of internet EU to US hub, is selling out the EU to the US. Its all too muted for my liking. Cant help thinking that behind the scenes the US is trying to broker some sort of deal. I dunno, intelligence sharing or whatever.