Deze bezorgdheid betreft niet alleen gesprekken met vaste telefoontoestellen, GSM's, Short Message Services (SMS), Electronic Media Services (EMS) en Multi Media Messaging Services (MMS), maar ook in toenemende mate internetprotocollen met inbegrip van e-mail, “voice over internet”, World Wide Web, “file transfer”-protocollen, “network transfer”-protocollen, “voice over broadband”, etc.
These concerns relate not only to communications by fixed phones, mobile phones, short message services (SMS), electronic media services (EMS) and multi media services (MMS). Increasingly, they also relate to Internet Protocols including email, voice over the Internet, worldwide web, file transfer protocols, network transfer protocols, voice over broadband, etc.