Oh, I'd forgotten, thanks Seraph.
Forgot to also say that there is a sort of encyption war going on as well, whereby American companies are not allowed to sell any type of encryption that the CIA can't decrypt. The idea is that all encryption that exists should be within US intelligence's capabilities to decrypt. Seems to me that couldn't be the case since some of the best cryptographers in the world are not Americans. But I don't know much about this, or how it works. It's fairly sensitive though and there are some IT products that Europeans cannot buy due to this law, I remember hearing about it through work a few years ago.

Export of cryptography in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



This (below) is what I was talking about with regards to Sweden. It's a really creepy law which lets them spy on telco and internet in a really efficient way. Sweden should be red on that map, really. When people complained and demonstrated, the prime minister eventually alluded to the situation with 80% of Russian internet traffic passing through Sweden, and that the law was for "national security". This just pissed most sensible people off even more. Then, later, it emerged the law was the result of pressure from the US. RT in this case has the story exactly right but only geeky Swedes, like me, are aware of it.

So you don't have to be Belarussian to worry about this! Everyone has a reason to at least consider it, including Americans and people in the EU.

And everyone should consider what happens if Facebook or Gmail/Google goes "evil" with all your personal data. People talk about the creepiness of organisations like the German "Stasi". Then they happily give out 100 times more information then Stasi could have found out about them in their wildest dreams... to a privately owned corporation in a foreign country.