Europe lectures China about surveillance but builds its own digital Stasi under EU laws and data retention mandates. The U.S. spies on allies through NSA backdoors, forces companies to hand over data, and funds startups that harvest every click and movement. Big Tech turns mass spying into profit, selling citizens to advertisers while handing governments tools once reserved for secret police. Westerners mock authoritarian regimes but live under invisible surveillance capitalism. Truthloop says it plain: privacy is dead not because of Beijing or Moscow, but because Washington, Brussels and Silicon Valley killed it and sold the corpse.