The Obama administration is pushing hard on a bill that would require the operators of all communications services to give law enforcement access to customers messages in order to comply with wiretap orders. This is essentially a throwback to the way that the government handled telephone intercepts in decades past. The government is worried that as people continue to move away from email and phone calls and toward social networks, VoIP systems, they will be in serious jeopardy to monitor the activities of criminals and terrorists. The idea of intentionally weakening security and including back doors is a recipe for disaster.
Source: https://threatpost.com/folly-internet-wiretapping-092910/74532/