Parliament yesterday protected the privacy of cellphone users by outlawing legal provisions empowering the police to approach a mobile service provider to access information that a subscriber would have furnished when registering a sim-card.The House also rejected another law compelling a financial institution to inform the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe or the Depositors Protection Board when a person wants to withdraw huge sums of cash.
The nullification followed a concurrence by responsible Government ministries to adverse reports prepared by the Parliamentary Legal Committee against the Statutory Instrument on Postal and Telecommunications (Subscriber Registration) Regulations and the one on Depositors Protection Corporation Regulations that were gazetted last year.
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