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This is naive. America has all the laws they need to get data from private companies, just the same as China
And thanks to Snowden revelations we know for a fact that US companies work directly with US government and share all their user data.
The US and UK governments have literally that
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden
I assume you're referring to the fact that it claims to be based on court orders
You might want to look into what the FISA court counts as oversight