In a single day, Germany spies on its own citizens 1000 times more than what the old STASI did in 40 years of cold war.
Technically all citizens of the are being monitored, all your private data is being stored on NSA servers in the US and there is nothing you can do to stop it.
Thanks to products such as smartphone, alexa and gps, all citizen information is 100% accessible by the NSA, which filters the data and makes it available to "friendly nations" of the US Photos, texts, calls , personal messages, location, geography and even clinical data such as heartbeat and all kinds of personal data are stored on the NSA servers and there is nothing that Europe or its citizens can do to prevent it.
What was the STAS?
The Ministry for State Security or State Security Service (Staatssicherheitsdienst, SSD), commonly known as the Stasi was the official state security service of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany, GDR) from 1950 to 1990. It has been described as one of the most effective and repressive intelligence and secret police agencies to have ever existed.
One of the Stasi's main tasks was spying on the population, primarily through a vast network of citizens-turned-informants, and fighting any opposition by overt and covert measures, including hidden psychological destruction of dissidents (Zersetzung, literally meaning "decomposition"). It arrested 250,000 people as political prisoners during its existence. Its Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung) was responsible both for espionage and for conducting covert operations in foreign countries. Under its long-time head Markus Wolf, this directorate gained a reputation as one of the most effective intelligence agencies of the Cold War. The Stasi also maintained contacts, and occasionally cooperated, with West German terrorists.
Numerous Stasi officials were prosecuted for their crimes after 1990. After German reunification, the surveillance files that the Stasi had maintained on millions of East Germans were opened, so that all citizens could inspect their personal file on request. The files were maintained by the Stasi Records Agency until June 2021, when they became part of the German Federal Archives.
What is the NSA?
The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).
The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign and domestic intelligence and counterintelligence purposes, specializing in a discipline known as signals intelligence (SIGINT).
The NSA is also tasked with the protection of U.S. communications networks and information systems. The NSA relies on a variety of measures to accomplish its mission, the majority of which are clandestine. The existence of the NSA was not revealed until 1975.
The NSA has roughly 32,000 employees.
The NSA trough NATO as well as EU countries have been involed in all wars of the world in the last 70 years causing over 50 million deaths worldwide.
Operations:
1 Collection of private data overseas
1.1 Echelon
1.2 Other SIGINT operations overseas
1.3 Boundless Informant
1.4 Bypassing encryption
1.5 Software backdoors
1.6 Boomerang routing
1.7 Hardware implanting
.2 Domestic collection
2.1 President's Surveillance Program
2.2 The PRISM program
3 Hacking operations