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> This might be a good time to remind the angry mob that other nations spy just as much, or more so, than the US.

Probably not "as much"; quantity of spying is limited by quantity of resources available for spying, and the US probably outspends most other nations (quite likely, as with military spending more generally, at or near the amount of all other nations combined) on spying.

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It is so cheap to collect and store nowadays that your argument won't be true for long, if it even still is.

This is true, perhaps, of voluntary collection of data from cooperative partners, which is, to be sure, one of the controversial aspects of the NSAs domestic surveillances that has come out, but hardly the limit of the NSA's spying.

It will continue to require resources to collect information from people who are trying to prevent you from having it.

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