Because they got caught up in this last Red Scare. No outrage after Snowden leaks, no outrage for Google. It has nothing to do with privacy. It has to do with Russia.

But anyway, Russia can't hurt me as much as the US can, so I take the opposite stance from you. I'm much more wary of my own government spying on me, since they can hurt me a lot more easily than some country on the other side of the Earth.