The Wire Taps are a small but influential criminal operation of about 60 members specializing in surveillance, eavesdropping, and the sale of private information. Not corporate intelligence like the Flicker Collective deals in — personal information. Conversations, locations, relationships, habits, secrets, lies. The Wire Taps sell the private lives of GLMZ's citizens to anyone willing to pay: jealous spouses, paranoid employers, stalkers, blackmailers, private investigators, and occasionally law enforcement agencies that can't get a warrant.

The organization's technical capability is remarkable for its size. Members include former corporate surveillance technicians, ex-Axiom Security signal intelligence operators, and BCI modification specialists who can install monitoring capabilities in personal neural interfaces without the owner's knowledge. Their equipment ranges from off-the-shelf listening devices to custom-built surveillance drones to BCI parasites — tiny programs that ride on a target's neural interface and transmit their perceptions to a receiver.

The Wire Taps operate on a simple business model: clients request surveillance of a target, the Taps provide a quote based on the target's security posture, and upon acceptance, they deliver recorded material in the client's preferred format. No moral judgments. No questions about intent. The Taps have facilitated divorces, corporate espionage, political blackmail, stalking, and at least one murder where surveillance data was used to plan the killing. They consider themselves a neutral service provider.