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One of our former presidents, Mitterand in the 80ies, used intelligence services to eavedrop phone conversations for his own needs. You'd think people would revolt, but more recently in order to operate the "three strikes" law and HADOPI they delegated the monitoring of P2P/Interenet trafic (in order to check for IP rights violations) to a private company. We have laws about the privacy of communications too (like paper mail), but strangely nobody seem to realize they plainly apply to electronic communications.