What's super awesome is nearly every US voter (including the ones reading this) will vote for the jackwads that enable and fund bulk surveillance abuses like this.

In and outside the US, non US citizens serve as a proving ground, for tech that US Gov will eventually deploy against it's own citizens.

US Gov does this because it can, because news orgs are more interested in sportball, because both parties have successfully set citizens at each other throats for decades and because the public keeps gorging on whatever fear-filled plate of nonsense is put in front of us.

Ten years from now, an entirely new regime of surveillance abuses will be added to those already deployed against us. More than any other reason, this will happen because we endlessly reelect the people who are ultimately responsible.

We could do better.