How do you not consider all Americans spies, given the way our devices work and constantly hoover everything? Perhaps most Americans aren't approached to sell the data they essentially collect 24/7 on everything around them, assuming even just a smart phone (not to mention cars, music, nest-like devices, iot, yadda yadda), but it is one hell of a mesh.
I think that's a good observation because people are really doing it to themselves.
Most of our electronics hasn't been American for quite some time now, so there is that. It really is made in, and for, less freedom & liberty loving countries, with the USA becoming more like collateral damage each decade.
It wasn't really this bad until Facebook came along whose sole mission ended up trying to monopolize PII as much as possible. And if not that at least put billions of dollars to work changing peoples' habits to neglect their own privacy anyway even if they end up on other platforms.
If privacy wasn't so valuable in a fundamental way, they wouldn't have been able to get as rich as they did by monetizing its removal.
I think one thing that made things worse was, before modern social media there was a semi-enforced need to categorise our public conversations (bbses, usenet, web forums); now it is kind of sludge since systems weight things nothing like a sane human would. Sure, searching is easier, but cohesion and connection is far worse, and that combination combined with things like flock etc all running through the same networks adds to the feeling many have of feeling too "known" by algorithms, which will likely get far worse, weirder, more uncanny, and spyish.
