European monitoring of civilians still far less than U.S.European governments' ability to monitor citizens' online activity on security grounds has increased significantly in recent years. Jun 11, 2013
Britain planning new Internet snooping laws checking emailsThe British government wants to expand its powers to monitor email exchanges and website visits, The Sunday Times newspaper reported. Apr 01, 2012
UK government to demand access to all phone and internet user dataThe British government is in the process of developing a scheme whereby all phone companies and broadband internet providers will be required to store customer transaction data for a year and hand it over to security services upon request. Feb 20, 2012