There are a lot of things that we thought it would be "outrageous" for NSA to do, and yet we found out later they're doing them. If anything, NSA is more interested in spying on corporations for the purpose of economic espionage than anything else. Why else would Germany be spied upon by the NSA as much as China is?
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101291247
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-braz...
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/10/nsa-busted-conducting...
There are a lot of things that we thought it would be "outrageous" for NSA to do, and yet we found out later they're doing them. If anything, NSA is more interested in spying on corporations for the purpose of economic espionage than anything else. Why else would Germany be spied upon by the NSA as much as China is?
http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/30/4481670/nsa-spying-in-germ...