It isn’t that the NSA woke up one morning and said: “Let’s spy on everyone.” It said: “Corporate America is spying on everyone. Let’s get ourselves a copy.” And it does—through bribery, coercion, threats, legal compulsion, and outright theft—collecting cell phone location data, Internet cookies, e-mails and text messages, log-in credentials, and so on. Other countries operate in a similar fashion.
