[wongarsu]

"Look, it's not Mass Surveilance, we are only spying on all communications of a few of our neighbour countries. It's not like we were spying on the whole world"

I hope I'm not the only one who thinks that excuse would sound ridiculous. You can always say "I didn't do A because from now on I'm defining A so narrow that it doesn't include what I did", but that's not how language works.