"The MPs say the current system was designed in a pre-internet age when a person's word was accepted without question. "It is designed to scrutinise the work of George Smiley, not the 21st-century reality of the security and intelligence services," said committee chairman, Keith Vaz. "The agencies are at the cutting edge of sophistication and are owed an equally refined system of democratic scrutiny. It is an embarrassing indictment of our system that some in the media felt compelled to publish leaked information to ensure that matters were heard in parliament.""

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/09/edward-snowden-mps-commons-report-spying

In the light of all the Snowden discoveries, we have found out many secrets about security agencies, and by all means this article shows that it is not just America, and the fact that it is in England and very real also. This can not be the case, and the change must start in America, where the issue of privacy was first uncovered, and Obama making talking about the NSA's private dealings punishable is just a step in the wrong direction. There needs to be some sort of overhaul of personnel, there needs to be some change in organization, but there is not such thing. Despite the public uproar no policies have been changed and no one is doing anything to change any of that. The change is well overdue and it should happen.