Has it? UK has a long-standing reputation as one of the most persistent surveillance nanny states in the West.

The Clipper Chip died a quick death back when the Clinton administration wanted it, as the push back against it was pretty strong. Now? Seems like a matter of time before every form of electronic communication has a dozen different back, side, and front doors into it.

PSA:

    The Overton window is the range of subjects and arguments politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time.[1] It is also known as the window of discourse.

    […]

    The political commentator Joshua Treviño has postulated that the six degrees of acceptance of public ideas are roughly:[7]
    
    unthinkable
    radical
    acceptable
    sensible
    popular
    policy

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window