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I think Ed Snowden proved to us this is not true. Room 614a

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

That was revealed several years before Snowden's defection.

And yet nothing was done about it.

Nor since.

ProAm clarified that these were intended as two separate examples, so fair enough. It just rubs me the wrong way when people seem to give credit to Snowden for revealing things which were already known.

I meant that as two different things, both were largely disregarded as punishable.

Sure, but since we explicitly won't, I feel that a lot of this outrage is just BS. As a US citizen, I'm far more concerned with the US government knowing where I am at all times than China. We could pass a law that forbids the US government to consume any personally identifiable data from social media platforms without a warrant, but we won't.

Can we? That seems to very much depend on who is in power and who has benefitted from the shadiness in question.