Lawful interception (LI) refers to the facilities in telecommunications and telephone networks that allow law enforcement agencies with court orders or other legal authorization to selectively wiretap individual subscribers. Most countries require licensed telecommunications operators to provide their networks with Legal Interception gateways and nodes for the interception of communications. The interfaces of these gateways have been standardized by telecommunication standardization organizations. With the legacy public switched telephone network (PSTN), wireless, and cable systems, lawful...

Lord & Taylor is an American department store chain, and the oldest department store in the United States. As of August 2019, it had 38 stores and one outlet store. The flagship store at the Lord & Taylor Building on Fifth Avenue in New York City operated from 1914 until 2019. The chain has been a subsidiary of Le Tote since November 2019. Lord & Taylor parent company Le Tote filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on August 2, 2020, and on August 27, 2020, it was announced that Lord & Taylor would be liquidated. == Early history == === 19th century === English-born Samuel Lord start...