People don't want to admit that American companies and the American government spy and collect data just as much, if not more than other countries. They just do it in more covert ways with more sophisticated and hidden backdoors. This media push to focus on the abuse of privacy in other countries rather than what's going on in our own country is probably led and funded by the same people invading your privacy on a daily basis. Welcome to the future, because as long as money as allowed in politics, this isn't going to get any better. Data is valuable and they are going to extract everything they can until the people wake up and realize what it means to live in a control system built perfectly around the information being collected every second of every day from every single citizen.