Remember, this is the place where you have to be of age (18/21) to buy a butter knife.
How would you like it if the local sewer board decided to tap your phone? In the UK, you have to put up with it.
http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-business/16145/councils-and-police-make-1500-snoop-attempts-daily/Quote:
We have 'sleepwalked into a surveillance state', say Lib Dems
Every day last year, local authorities, police and the intelligence services granted more than 1,500 requests to snoop on the public's phonecalls, emails and text messages.
