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I don't feel that intercepting traffic should ever be considered lawful.
If you need evidence, get a warrant, and take the equipment.
Many people sincerely believe rules are a big thing and such organizations don't violate those regularly. Even in the EU. Even when nobody will know.
That's how they used to do it, get a warrant, and wiretap landlines.
Except even back then the FBI spied on whoever they wanted, like Martin Luther King and the civil rights organizers. Always has been this way