If you are in the UK, the answer will soon be yes. On November 1, 2022, the United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the government agency that leads the country's cyber security mission, announced that they are going to begin scanning all Internet-exposed devices hosted in their home country for vulnerabilities. The country-wide scanning effort directly supports the UK Government’s cyber security strategy objective to understanding the cyber risk of the entire nation. The goal of the scanning effort is to assess the UK's vulnerability to cyber-attacks and to help the owners of Internet-connected systems understand their own security posture.
The scanning will reportedly target all Internet-accessible devices that are hosted within the United Kingdom to determine the vulnerabilities that are common or particularly important across the nation. The NCSC will use the resulting data to create an overview of the UK’s exposure to vulnerabilities following their disclosure and track their remediation over time. One priority is to identify all Internet connected entities and available services. If a zero-day vulnerability becomes known for any of the known devices or applications, the NCSC could presumably respond quickly to limit the ability of malicious actors to exploit it.
This won’t be a one-time scan but rather a regularly scheduled event. The schedule hasn’t been made public yet, but the NCSC wants to “maintain an up-to-date picture of vulnerabilities across the whole of the UK.” Presumably the government agency has accurate geolocation information for the IPs that are physically located in the UK. The scan is opt-out. UK residents and organizations can opt-out by sending an email with their IP addresses to the NCSC. The act of the scan itself should not be a concern for anyone as any Internet facing devices are already being scanned constantly by malicious hackers and benign entities such as Shodan.io..
To learn more about the scanning and how to opt-out, read the NCSC announcement here.