You mean the West who are in the Five Eyes intelligence collective[0]? Alright, I get it, German may not be doing this and a few Nordic countries, but overall The West is waist high in this type of stuff.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

The west.

See UKUSA agreement [1] and echelon [2] for a primer on how global surveillance[3] started mid 20th century.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance