I find this an interesting topic whenever it's raised - and it is raised often. My opinion of being recorded, whether that's browser history, walking down the street on CCTV, texts or whatever, is that I don't care who watches me. I really don't.
My ego is not big, and I honestly don't think that I'm so interesting that on a planet of 7 billion, I'm going to be singled out by anyone at GCHQ, the NSA, the CIA, James Bond, or Jason Bourne.
People in this country bang on about our 'civil liberties being eroded' and other such nonsense. If you really believe that our civil liberties are so bad, spend 5 minutes talking to someone that comes from, well, throw a dart at a map of the middle east, and take your pick.
We have an amazing amount of freedom in this country, we take it for granted every day and we will continue to enjoy it. A bit like hot and cold running water, electricity, heating, television and so on. Poor old Brits. We're so hard done by...Sierra Leone or Iraq looks like a much better deal - at least they don't get watched when they're buying their lottery tickets in Waitrose, lucky bastards.