US Spying Double Standards
The cluster centers on debates about hypocrisy in US surveillance practices, where the NSA spying on foreigners and allies is seen as acceptable, but foreign spying on Americans or domestic surveillance is criticized, often referencing Five Eyes alliances and legal loopholes.
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What is the issue here? Does the US not spy on pretty much every other country and its people?
that's right! Leave the spying on Americans for the US Govt..
Isn't the logic reversed in this case? Spying on US citizens is fine as long as you aren't the US government. Hence 5 eyes and so on.
The US can spy on you; they just don't want anyone else to do so as well.
Soldiers aren't asked to shoot every single foreigner traveling through your country, just in case they may want to hurt you.There's nothing wrong in having an intelligence agency that spy on people you may suspect of wanting to hurt you or your country. What the US does, other countries do this as well, is spying on people that aren't suspected of anything, even people living in their own or allied countries. Even worse is that in the process of ensuring that they are able to
Not OP, but we keep reading articles about US spy agencies illegally spying on americans so I don't trust them not to break the law to spy on us as well.
The NSA spies on foreign people more than they spy on Americans.Remember that when they spy on Americans, they have to at least pretend to have a cause, and fill all those secret reports to give to the secret judge and receive the secret authorization and so on.
So if I'm reading this right, it was wrong only because they were spying on Americans. Spying on others is apparently still ok.
Yep, the US is a foreign country and hey they do it too. Every country spies!
I'm from Belgium and he is right - i do think that USA spies on everyone, it makes sense and USA had admitted it multiple times.They are just worried that US citizens think the USA spies on them.PS. The USA doesn't only spy on non-US traffic, they just hide the spying inside the US more secretive :)PS2. Every country tries to spy though, not only the US :)