The movie "Enemy of the State" results in a chance encounter which places an old friend Dean (Will Smith) in a situation where he is framed for murder by Reynolds (Jon Voight), a senior executive of the National Security Agency, NSA, whose legislative opponent wants to defeat a telecommunications bill which would enable the government to monitor the citizens as well as the criminals.

Although the movie was considered somewhat unrealistic or even fictional at its inception, it would later prove to be more accurate in its predictions than the American public would be willing to accept. Eleven years later this movie would be witness to passage without controversy of a digital cable television law forcing all television connections to be digitized and hence, traceable.