Privacy-Shrivacy Bollocks. Many here do not get the point. US having intimate information of a foreign populace is akin to having an extra weapon in their arsenal. In today's world data is the new gunpowder. If you have insight(I mean really really know) into what a foreign country would buy/sell you can have an upper hand in trade negotiations. This is not some prudish step to prevent Uncle Sam to look into your private details. This is all out cold war. Diplomats across the world are talking about one thing today: Nullifying the U.S advantage. I guess China foresaw it.