ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the negotiation of the social meaning of interception in Italy, by tracing the most salient features of the discursive space wherein this meaning is negotiated. To grasp the process of negotiation of the social meaning of interception is therefore important to properly understand a number of processes involved in the social shaping of the mobile phone technology. The debate appears to revolve around two main axes: privacy/security and public/private. The potential violation of the "intimate space" of mobile phone, instead than inducing anxiety, reaffirms security, as the privileged access granted by mobiles to individual life-worlds, together with the self-evident ubiquity of the device, establish the conditions for a truly capillary justice. Pro-interception discourses evoke the intimacy of mobile phone, but appear to use it to depict a potential ubiquity of justice and shift the anxiety on the intractable object itself.
