THE evidence that Namibian intelligence and state security forces are stockpiling and deploying sophisticated communications interception and surveillance technologies continues to grow, even as the lawfulness of such practices remains highly questionable.
Indications are that invasive communications interception and surveillance are happening despite the fact that Part 6 of the Communications Act of 2009 has yet to be implemented, raising the spectre that these activities are shrouded in illegality and could already be violating constitutionally enshrined human rights, specifically freedom of expression and the right to privacy, among others, and are a threat to the rule of law.
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