Outrage over cellphone snooping

ORDINARY Zimbabweans have expressed mixed views over the government’s gazetting of a law which allows security agencies to pry into people’s telephone call records, text messages and Internet communication.

Government last Friday gazetted Statutory Instrument 142 of 2013 relating to the Postal and Telecommunications (Subscriber Registration) Regulations, which allows the cellphone snooping. The law took effect yesterday.

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