And again, the foreigners' right to protection of their privacy is not even up for discussion.
I'm tempted to say this is un-american. But thinking it over, it seems to actually have become the new "american".
In any case, this kind of attitude can not come from nation that sees itself as "the best country in the world".
However such behavior is at least consistent with traditional American 'protections' on foreign traffic. Even before there was an NSA, there was a government office reading Western Union telegrams being transmitted internationally.
This behavior is even consistent with the behavior of even Germany, which has a similar concept of foreign surveillance vs. domestic.
"Un-american" supposedly means against freedom (and a range of other positive buzzwords) which is pretty hilarious given their behavior.
We would have been on the winning side of those conflicts no matter which side we chose.