Erm, just having come back from a business trip from Russia I can honestly say that the average Russian does not trust the American government.
The more likely response is bemusement over Bush's foreign policy, amusement over some of his 'speeches', and in many ways consider him to be crazy (in the 'completley unpredictable' sense).
It depends on how the law has been implemented. In the UK we have the Date Protection Act, where any personal information collected and stored in the UK cannot be used for any purposes other than it was collected for. It cannot be sold on to other business and even if one company holds billing information, they cannot use that to try to sell you any of their new products unless you let them.
If a UK company sold personel information to an offshore company they would be hit by a big fine. Of course, if I foolishly give out my info to companies who do not operate with the UK there is nothing to stop them from selling this on.
Not surprisingly, I never give any info to anybody apart from UK companies. To put this into context, in general I recieve one spam email a month and about six junk mail a month and am almost never cold called.
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The more likely response is bemusement over Bush's foreign policy, amusement over some of his 'speeches', and in many ways consider him to be crazy (in the 'completley unpredictable' sense).
If a UK company sold personel information to an offshore company they would be hit by a big fine. Of course, if I foolishly give out my info to companies who do not operate with the UK there is nothing to stop them from selling this on.
Not surprisingly, I never give any info to anybody apart from UK companies. To put this into context, in general I recieve one spam email a month and about six junk mail a month and am almost never cold called.