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Originally Posted by RayW and I think I read something about these being limited to only foreign communications? I'd need to check on that.

I read it's constitutional because they're not scanning Americans, only foreigners. Your laws don't apply to us. But on the other hand, this does violate MY laws. I know they only scan the data going over American servers, but this is a huge grey zone of legality which should be discussed first.

What politicians are afraid of here (Belgium) and what happened before in former American programs, is economical spying. Don't have a certain valuable technique? Just scan the blueprints out of the company data and make it in your own country!

You can say that they are not allowed to do so. But that's where we get to my personal view. First of all, there is no control over this program. Maybe there is in the USA, but MY government cannot check what the USA is looking for, what data they use and on what purpose. There is not a single source outside of the USA which can check what the data is used for. All we have are words, and I honestly don't trust the USA enough with their words.

This is -in my opinion- very cocky of the USA to just "control the internet" as if they are the leaders of every single byte which passes over the internet (this is my internet usage over some days - http://i.imgur.com/eVqQhwB.jpg ). The USA government should NOT be allowed to scan my data for their own purposes. If it is in case of terrorist threats, pedophile networks or drug traffic, they should make the data available for other countries as well.

tl:dr I don't mind authorities scanning my internet traffic, as long as it has an international platform.