These principles aren't limited to the US. The methods and powers are ubiquitous, wherever blackmail and surveillance are possible - and I submit there is no place they are not - this is happening.
This is globalism.
We can't vote with our feet. We must vote with our wallets, by funding mechanisms that make it impossible to conduct secret surveillance. The only thing necessary to end all this abuse is to make it public.
Blockchain FTW!