In most countries a warrant will get you access to private data - but what the NSA is doing here goes far beyond that.
Obviously, reality is entirely different but my point is that, in other countries/localities, these so-called fundamental freedoms either do not exist or are diminished. In most of the western world, governments have significant leeway into the private lives of their citizens in the areas covered by PRISM.
I think we can be reasonably certain that programs like this already exist, or are identical, in almost any country with the technical capacity to provide similar services to the US.
The US didn't invent most of those liberties. Your assumption that those liberties are not part of the law in other countries is wildly incorrect.
The assumption that most other western countries have as extensive intelligence gathering as the US needs proof. I'm aware that Sweden and the UK are quite big on data gathering, but there are hundreds of other countries in the world.
Let's look at the list of countries (order is random):
1. EU (probably only France, UK, Germany, possibly the Netherlands) 2. Israel 3. Canada, solely by proximity to the US 4. Japan 5. China 6. Brazil 7. Russia 8. Australia, that's a big maybe though 9. India 10. Iran 11. South Korea 12. Singapore 13. South Africa 14. Scandinavia (Finland, Denmark, Sweden)
These are the countries that likely have the technological advancement required to even offer cloud-based services of the scale and capability offered by US based organizations.
This is also assuming that significant parts of their overall connectivity does not route through US controlled territories or demarcation (which likely rules out any south-east asian country like South Korea, Singapore, also Canada and Australia).
Of those remaining on the list, very few of them have even have civil liberties legislation codified. A rough guess might be:
1. EU 2. Israel 3. Japan 4. Brazil 5. Scandinavia 6. South Africa?
Israel we could likely rule-out. Not exactly the most trustworthy government, and the close ties with the US likely means that they either participate in or benefit directly from PRISM.
As a collective whole, the scandinavian countries likely could offer the level of cloud-based services provided but not individually.
So, in no particular order:
1. France 2. UK 3. Germany 4. Japan 5. Brazil
But, really, I'm not sure how much confidence you could have in any of those countries: The UK's GCHQ was very heavily involved in Prism themselves, much to our national shame, for instance.
Canada has it: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6870/125/
Sweden has it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5852497 http://peterfleischer.blogspot.se/2007/05/sweden-and-governm...
A reasonable criteria could be: most reputable countries with law-abiding & transparent governments and best privacy laws. A list to start the research might include Swizerland, Iceland, Finland, Norway...