huge database off all communications planned

The UK government is planning a huge database that would hold details of all phone calls, text messages, emails and internet use of every UK citizen.

link to story
I know that this is nothing new, I mean GCHQ already screens every Email and phone call within the UK and often abroad. In fact the very fact that this post contains the acronym GCHQ will be enough to flag this post up on their system for somebody to look at (Hello analyst dude :lol. It just seems really strange that the government are being so open about this. We are moving into a 1984 orwellian type nightmare and I think maybe it is time to jump ship. The question is, where to go that is not moving the same way ?