It seems very likely that surveillance involves both talking to Facebook and hacking on one's own these days. If a local police department (or an obscure agency

It seems very likely that surveillance involves both talking to Facebook and hacking on one's own these days. If a local police department (or an obscure agency or a contractor) can successfully hack someone's phone, such action has the advantage that neither the Feds nor Facebook or whoever has to know about it. It's reasonable to say that surveillance channels are power and by that token, everyone wants a channel that's as much under their sole control as possible. And no one wants another Snowden, even if Snowden probably didn't change things fundamentally, he gave the NSA a big black eye and I'd suspect image is important to these agencies as well.