Looking For Lessons in Past Wiretapping Battle

In the good old days, there were copper lines and the feds liked to tap them. Then came digital switches and phones that could roam, and the feds wanted to tap them, too.

And in 1994, after acrimonious debate that ripped apart an emergent tech-focussed civil liberties group, the feds won and the phone system's architecture would have surveillance baked into the switches in perpetuity.