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If governments / law makers cared, they would react.

I remember when the French government learnt that all the top officials of the country where tapped by the NSA, including the President (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionnage_de_l%27%C3%89lys%C3...).

France did absolutely nothing.

I mean you say nothing, but they did start building their own secure chat app [0] with a view to making it mandatory for all government officials.

>France did absolutely nothing...

...that we know about.

Sure, but doing nothing publicly does mean a lot.