GCHQ's Karma Police: Tracking And Profiling Every Web User, Every WebsiteThe UK might be the country with the most thorough online surveillance, although the USA probably isn't far behind and when you combine the power of corporations and the government in the USA and the way they share data, it probably is the case that the USA still tops the UK as far as surveillance goes.
In 2010, GCHQ noted that what amounted to "25 percent of all Internet traffic" was transiting the U.K. through some 1,600 different cables. The agency said that it could "survey the majority of the 1,600" and "select the most valuable to switch into our processing systems."
The GCHQ seems to have a sense of humor:
MEMORY HOLE, which logs queries entered into search engines and associates each search with an IP address
Props for the ironic 1984 reference, GCHQ.
Or maybe not:
It's not ironic if they consider the book a manual instead of a warning.
LINK:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150927/02130732376/gchqs-karma-police-tracking-profiling-every-web-user-every-website.shtml