Who's going to pay? (Score 2, Insightful)

You are. If they are really serious about this, it's going to mean massive investments for serviceproviders. One thing is collecting customer statistics about source/destination and type of traffic - actually sniffing it, and sending it to central location(FBI/CIA whatever) is an entirely different matter that requires special hardware. E.g. a Juniper monitoring PIC (special expensive linecard for special expensive routers used by serviceproviders) doesn't come cheap, and the money has to come from somewhere - either from increased ISP fees, or increased tax in the unlikely event that the government is going to foot the bill.