Quote Originally Posted by Marvin_The_Martian View Post
Lol yeah I was joking

And it's only normal that anything passing through a countries territory is subject to it's laws. If it weren't, Holland would have more export I promise you

It's been discussed many times before, but the majority of traffic goes through them yet that doesn't give them any control over it. Their allowed to listed in on things, and I guess that is such an necessity that even my own feeling of privacy wouldn't make me say it is wrong to monitor this traffic. But it doesn't mean 'THEY' can change what results you get from your search engine ect.
Let's be honest, what the US government does with their knowledge is not the same as any other agency. Given the recent changes in policy and snooping permits (not really requiring permits now), other countries still do not have laws that violate your rights as much as the states. Most countries don't give a damn about your data (unless its china).

The way I feel about US internet data policy is: I'd rather have my data go through germany, denmark, and china than the US (well UK is pretty bad too, but google doesn't have data warehouses there). But thats just me.