Let's just agree it's a problem everywhere?
Let's just not, because the ones carrying the baton of "liberty" are the ones that ought be measured by that same stick
China or other countries do not fall on the hypocrisy of saying that your info won't be part of the dragnet, this is not the case with said western govs which then proceed to decry the evil non-western countries for doing the exact same thing and expecting their populations to somehow do something about it¿? ¿? ¿ It is indeed nauseating
In some places they say you are free and have rights, but you don't.
In other places you know you don't have certain rights and act accordingly, because people are not stupid, if they know there's a potential danger ahead, they become more cautious (or they carefully comply, because there are no alternatives).
I would say the first group of counties is more dangerous, because it gives people a false sense of security, lowering their natural defenses, while corporations profit from knowing everything about them, things they said they should never have had access to in the first place, because you have rights, right?
the west talks big, but in reality western countries are the biggest slimiest dirtiest hypocrites the world has ever known