Nokia: 'Western governments...don't allow you to build networks without having this [spying] functionality.'

"The product allows authorities to monitor any communications across a network, including voice calls, text messaging, instant messages, and web traffic. . . . Rather than just block traffic, it is understood that the monitoring system can also interrogate data to see what information is being passed back and forth. A spokesman described the system as 'a standard architecture that the world's governments use for lawful intercept'."