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I'm not sure if this counts as spying but in UK they are allowed to monitor people to quite a large extent if I got this right. I think refusing to decrypt your device when requested is also punishable.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13718768/uk-surveillance...

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Indeed, I don't think the UK government has any problem hacking phones if they believe this is required, but it's likely to involve disclosure to the courts, and hence in some way be accountable.

It's therefore easier to get a friendly government to do the hacking and to pass on the discovered info, which side-steps any legal accountability.

Yeah the whole "unwritten constitution" thing is very laughable, if we're honest. At least the US Federal gov has to pretend to care about the 4th and 5th amendments.

If were honest, the us is held together by a few pieces of paper written by a bunch of men 250 years ago that wasn't meant to last 20 years and has since become the sparring ground of lawyers who have twisted it beyond recognition no doubt.

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