Same in USA but a lot more secret. They for example don’t care what you download but will sure as hell care if you use it for something very bad. That how you see so many bad actors getting caught even hiding behind VPN/TOR. They will never use this in court of course, because they will have to reveal how it was done. No VPN/TOR or even your own server is 100% safe from the gov. Usually they have direct backdoors in data centers or hardware and software.