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No one cares. Why should they care? There's far worse stuff happening. For example, the massive TV licence database; the massive police DNA database; the huge numbers of poorly regulated CCTV.

Simply put, people don't care enough. We haven't had the history some countries like Germany have had to realise the huge amount of problems spying on your citizens causes.

And they've put it through whilst most people are busy being annoyed over the Brexit and you've got a situation where people just have bigger (in their minds) things to worry about.

> through revolts

In addition to laziness, there is democracy and patience. Threatening your society with violence and anarchy shouldn't be taken lightly.