These so-called Watch Dogs are old, toothless mutts chained up with a short lead. They might bark from time to time, but really, what can they do? 

The two major parties in Canada and the US are in agreement when it comes to spying on their own people: They're for it! They'll just quibble about the details. These watch dogs can bark and bark all they want, they don't have the power to change or create laws. Privacy is dead, dead and buried and its not coming back. The NSA has back doors into everything, and I mean *everything*. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook - all in cahoots with the  government security apparatus, to say nothing of phone records or CCTV cameras.