European and other nations have long provided private data to US spies under secret sharing agreements. Their protests are nonsense. Hearings on these violations of their citizens and subjects seldom do more than issue demands that the practices stop but do not order action to truly stop them. The reason is that the US (and its contractors) supplies the other nations with data on their citizens and subjects as well as funding and technology for homeland spying. Blaming the hegemon-of-choice is obligatory strut. And most importantly spies do not have to obey laws anywhere and provide exculpation for their mercenaries. This is a global practice not invented in the US, indeed it might be argued that the US is slightly less jaded than other nations who have betrayed in secret fashions developed over millennia -- way before laws were confected to bless official crime to fight threats to hegemons. US hegemons will not be penalized nor lose customers because alternatives are no more trustworthy. Check the gov-protected monopolies cum oligarchies that dominate Euro, Asian, African South American countries which adopted Echelon as home brew either by treaty or by unilateral corporatism -- the path most favored by unregulated billionaires more numerous elsewhere than the US. And they all have spy operations coupled to governments. They all believe the USG is constitutionally delusional.