62 We would have hoped that after Snowden, Western governments

    63 would be a bit more sensitive and enlightned about the topic

    64 of privacy, but this is far from the truth. Ross Anderson

    65 wrote the following in his blog about the approach taken in

    66 the US to lessons learned from the Snowden leaks and contrasts

    67 this with the new snooping bill that is considered in the UK

    68 parliament: 

    69 

    70 \begin{quote}\it 

    71 ``The comparison with the USA is stark. There, all three

    72 branches of government realised they'd gone too far after

    73 Snowden. President Obama set up the NSA review group, and

    74 implemented most of its recommendations by executive order;

    75 the judiciary made changes to the procedures of the FISA

    76 Court; and Congress failed to renew the data retention

    77 provisions in the Patriot Act (aided by the judiciary). Yet

    78 here in Britain the response is just to take Henry VIII powers

    79 to legalise all the illegal things that GCHQ had been up to,

    80 and hope that the European courts won't strike the law down

    81 yet again.''

    82 \end{quote}

    83 

    84 \noindent Unfortunately, also big organisations besides

    85 governments seem to take an unenlightened approach to privacy.