The UK is covered by the Data Protection Act of 1998: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_19

The UK is covered by the Data Protection Act of 1998: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998 The first paragraph mentions: it was enacted to bring UK law into line with the EU data protection directive of 1995 which required Member States to protect people's fundamental rights and freedoms and in particular their right to privacy with respect to the processing of personal data Having said that, US privacy laws did not stop the NSA from snooping. I don't wanna think about how much control the MI5 or MI6 have over UK's network connectivity. Being a small island I cannot imagine it being hard to control.