Are you kidding me? Surely you are not that naive? Like, I'm guessing you've never heard of Edward Snowden, surveillance programs like XKeyscore and PRISM, the international spying ring Five Eyes? The Anglo countries have been mass surveillance regimes for quite a while.
Edward Snowden: "The Five Eyes alliance is sort of an artifact of the post World War II era where the Anglophone countries are the major powers banded together to sort of co-operate and share the costs of intelligence gathering infrastructure. … The result of this was over decades and decades some sort of a supra-national intelligence organisation that doesn't answer to the laws of its own countries."
Been asleep the past decade or two?