Not surprising, tapping has been under development for quite some time. Sweden was trying to convince EU to start tapping all calls and Internet traffic. The technology apparently exists. I hope they'll remove the tapping before the politicians in all our countries are replaced by even worse politicians. I mean people who party and take vacation for some million dollars a year or so is bad, but acceptable, but what about when they are replaced by more violent people? It's dangerous ground to start this, because not only does it make it worse when a real nutcase by accident gets power, but it also makes nutcases more likely to be tempted by and strive towards these power positions.