How about abandoning US technologies as much as it is possible? Once those giant corps loose majority of users, they will make sure those government crooks won't have enough money to run such programs anymore...

If they get a no spy agreement, I as a US citizen want one too. As I type this I can hear a drone flying over my house, my monitor keeps flickering like they are tapping into my computer and my cell phone has cycled on and off three times. For the record, I love Obama, the NSA is the best, the IRS is an outstanding agency and I believe all of them should be allowed to have all the Star Trek party's they want, any where in the world they want. Go Obama!

No spying agreement between the Europeans and the U.S. will be worthless and meaningless. If such an agreement is signed, the NSA may stop spying on Europeans, but it will set up companies and contracctors in New Zealand, Angola, or another non-suspected by the Europeans country, and equip them with sophisticated equipment and training to do that - as it does with hundrends of war contractors. Why would the U.S. do that? Because when a national security activity becomes vast and grows deep roots into the American political and military establishment, there is no going back. It becomes part of the American politico-military fabric, the so-called "Indusrial and military Complex" that stands above the U.S. government. The late U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower admitted it on his inaugural speech to the U.S. Congress in 1956, and nothing has changed since then. The U.S. government can shift things around, but it cannot tear down the fabric, not can it control the behemoth bureaucracy. And with most presidents come quite ignoran in global affairs into office, they just go along with the insider experts. That is why many American, including myself, still believe that U.S. president John Kennedy was assassinated by the powerful bureaucracy for his refusal to allow the direct military invasion of Cuba. That bureaucracy still calls the shots today! Nikos Retsos, retired professor