ITU is lobbied by governments wanting some level of snooping.
ITU votes to allow some kind of snooping in the standards.
Government asks ISPS etc to follow the internationally agreed standard. "We'll only use the snooping stuff for terrorists and images of child sexual abuse, really."
Government uses this new compliance to the standards to get your ISP to snoop on stuff.
The governments take this circuitous route so that they as individual governments don't get attacked by local libertarians. Defeating a measure like this in one country is hard; defeating it across international treaties is very hard.
ITU votes to allow some kind of snooping in the standards.
Government asks ISPS etc to follow the internationally agreed standard. "We'll only use the snooping stuff for terrorists and images of child sexual abuse, really."
Government uses this new compliance to the standards to get your ISP to snoop on stuff.
The governments take this circuitous route so that they as individual governments don't get attacked by local libertarians. Defeating a measure like this in one country is hard; defeating it across international treaties is very hard.