Since the dawn of time, everybody has spied on everybody else to a lesser or greater degree, knowledge is power. All nations spy on all other nations, just some a bit more than others. Merkel mock outrage is exactly that as she is no innocent. Her father was allegedly a Stasi officer, who defected from West to East Germany.
http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/merkels-murky-past-more-evidence-of-her-youth-movementstasi-past-in-the-ddr/In the Western world and in reality over most of the globe, all calls and data are monitored in real time using powerful massively parallel signal processing computers looking for key words and phrases, any calls or data that trigger what they are looking for are then analysed in more detail. I think you will find that all UK telecoms companies have to install such equipment, where this law was passed by the BLiar Government, as part of the war on terrorism.
Long may it continue to catch the terrorists before they have the chance to strike within our midst.

This is also what makes lone terrorists so dangerous, as they don't leave any communications trails.
A few well known trigger words and phrases are: Boy, STEMO, Gixer, Mr Opti, Gold, cem, Johnny English, Chris, Zoom, Vamps, Tunnie, TB, Fuse, Hotel, Loo Knee, Taxi, Retards and Egg. So if you are in communication with anybody that regularly uses any of these words, you are probably being very closely watched 24/7 and very actively electronically monitored.
