And let's not even get started on the problems if you're not a citizen.
Trivial example: at the 29c3, an NSA whistleblower was complaining that the NSA was now eavesdropping on US citizens, oh the outrage! And explicitly listed the UN human rights conventions...forgetting that those same human rights conventions apply to the people he'd been eavesdropping on for the last 30-40 years with no problems whatsoever, the very people he was giving this presentation to.
Trivial example: at the 29c3, an NSA whistleblower was complaining that the NSA was now eavesdropping on US citizens, oh the outrage! And explicitly listed the UN human rights conventions...forgetting that those same human rights conventions apply to the people he'd been eavesdropping on for the last 30-40 years with no problems whatsoever, the very people he was giving this presentation to.