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Email and telephone surveillance rises in 2013

This content was published on Feb 27, 2014 Real-time monitoring by the Post and Telecommunications Surveillance Service, which involves listening in on telephone conversations and reading email correspondence, increased 22% to 3,945 instances in 2013, the justice ministry said on Thursday. About a third of surveillance measures were used to investigate violations of the narcotics act and offences against property. The remainder was…