Apparently the UK is worse than the US even - less pretense about not spying on their own subjects, less legal restrictions (to the extent the NSA and their nominal oversight even respected the restrictions, which clearly they did not much respect and subverted with clear internal complaints of the oversight to the extent that the info was disclosed to them.). You are her majesty's subject not a citizen, and the royal family hasnt exercised their powers nor even expressed displeasure such is the etiquette in a century. The best you've got is the house of lords, however even their powers have been weakened and dilluted by politically appointed peers by parliament, which in my view was two steps backwards; at least the hereditary peers were a break on change, are typically wealthy people who dont want the politicians to screw up the country and to some extent have more aligned interests with the people than policitians who typically have no actual views, just play to opinion with no regard for the direction their actions push civil society and democracy. It may well be that for most westerners the best you could do is use a russian or chinese internet proxy for internet, voice SIP, video chat/IM etc. The chinese are interesting in having their own source of backdoors (electronics manufacturing) possibly rivaling the US software and key backdoors. They may have a state level interest and competence to find and eliminate US originated backdoors. Similarly for russia. Adam On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:08:35PM -0400, Tom Ritter wrote:
On 30 September 2013 21:45, Juan Garofalo <juan.g71@gmail.com> wrote:
Am I right in assuming that the US is the only country who has its own subjects PLUS a good deal of the world under close surveillance?
I would say you are incorrect. The UK and the US cooperate very, very closely. Likewise, the Echelon/Five Eyes program is a publicly documented SIGINT sharing program (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON).
-tom