[rdl]

The US and Canada are actually some of the better places for a privacy-protecting provider, as long as you want to use strong cryptography. CALEA in the US is the main impediment to making a system where the operator intentionally can't disclose information, and that can be solved (for now) by not being a CALEA-covered provider (essentially, PSTN or VOIP interconnected with PSTN, or some kind of broadband physical access layer).