Law enforcement could be compelled by law to provide a means for LEA to perform lawful intercept. Today, if I wanted to perform surveillance against a target, I would tap his phone line. The classic deficiency is call forwarding, but “tapping a line” is. The line to the target is secondary. For example, why try to follow a target from Internet cafe to Internet cafe if you can just watch his chat room, Web forum, or meeting place directly? This seems less like Big Brother and more like Embedded Brother.”]
Source: https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-seen-future-and-it-is-monitored.html