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Tor comes to mind.
Technologically it's private, but if you're America and have the resources to create and control sufficiently many nodes you can undermine the protections.
The tor rabbit hole goes pretty deep, but ya based on the evidence I'd have to say its more a US developed counter-insurgency tool, rather than a privacy tool.
Wait 'til you hear who invented it...
That said, considering how many illegal services continue to run on it, I don't think it's as porous as some make it out. Definitely has well-documented weaknesses but the project maintainers tend to address them fairly straightforward.
Of course, you're also just as likely to be buying drugs off an Onion market that the FBI seized and kept running just to catch more bad guys, despite it also hosting illegal content itself.