But my own country “spying” and surveilling me can be scary. They have a lot of power over me. My one voice isn’t important enough to change any legislation or actions. I doubt yours is either. If something unlucky happens with the surveillance of you in your country, you’re likely out of luck. OTOH, nothing happens if Russia or China surveils me (common boogeymen of the west)
It sounds like you're suggesting human rights (such as the right to privacy) should only be granted to those who really need. Presumably the government would then get to decide who really needs each right, and who isn't important enough to warrant them.
Also, I think you're forgetting cases where people have been spied on and ultimately renditioned or murdered by a hostile government while in a third country. Perhaps Assange and Khashoggi aren't perfect examples of that, but there are plenty of examples of Russian and Chinese dissidents who have been killed or threatened while living in the West.
Right until the point of some weird twist in geopolitics and oops, that other country is sharing all it had on you with your home country.
It's like Microsoft buying Skype or Facebook buying WhatsApp, but you can't opt out and delete your account.
Haha yeah right. I don't even know the names of agencies which could have acces to this data in EU, I would supect neither do 99.99% of the people here. EU is really super distant entity compared to local government, we have 25%-30% voter turnout on those elections arround here.