User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-5122856-20140224222235

By Nov 1, 2013, President Obama cancelled his trip to Moscow in protest at Russian president Putin's protection of Mr Snowden. The Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff cancelled her state visit to Washington in protest at the US spying on her computer and mobile phone. The Bolivian president Morales had his plane forced down in Vienna amid suspicion that Mr Snowden was being smuggled out of Russia to Bolivia. The NSA also collecting the telephone records of 1,000,000s of American customers of Verizon, which is one of America's largest telecoms providers, as well the upstream collecting programs like the NSA's Prism, which, according to the Mr Snowdens' documents, was and still is the biggest single contributor to the NSA's intelligence reports. The system runs on a “downstream” program, which means the agency collects the data from Google, Facebook, Apple, Yahoo and other US internet giants in order to both spot terrorists, stopping crooks, get stuff to blackmail political rivals with, steeling nation and corporate secrets, industrial espionage and having deluded fantasy over who they can hate next in the EU, Arab World and Latin America. The UK's GCHQ helped the NSA repeatedly in recent years.

Yes China, Taiwan, Israle, Russia, India, Poland, Pakistan, Iran and N. Korea also do it.