Something I don't really understand. In my country, it is not even legal to sell/provide a piece of equipement/a service which enable people to communicate ... which cannot be spied on.
And what you don't understand is how it got so bad in your country? Pervasive, always-on, and presumed surveillance that cannot be opted out of is not a healthy environment for anyone.
These spying capabilities generally only require to work once a valid warrant has been provided. The US has those as well, but what's being discussed is warrantless mass-surveillance to anyone who's happy to pay for it.
yep, as far as I know, there are no laws about mass surveillance. At the same time, I don't think there are laws to forbid big data owners to use their global access to this data in order to get an unfair advantage, for instance linkedin.
As far as I know, it is the law.