We need to handle the root cause. In case of US companies it has to do with anything the patriot act brought — something which should have been a temporary "boost" turned out to become the new status quo. Nobody will voluntarily cut these new powers of your services and it breeds a climate of anticipatory obedience within US companies that will be hard to get rid of even if the patriot act isn't extended again.

This problem can only be solved by electing fundamentally different actors into office.