An Apology to my European IT Team
While OP's apology is appreciable, there was more than enough information available in 2008 to understand that his Czech colleagues were right.The Prism scandal may have come as a surprise to US citizens, but the US has been spying foreign nationals and companies for years, and we've long known about it - haven't you heard of Echelon? It was also well known that these systems were used for industrial espionage.