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Psst! Gov't is listening into your call

The jigsaw puzzle was solved this week when it turned out that the Government wants to give the intelligence services unfettered access to our phone and e-mail conversations without seeking a court warrant.

There are many reasons why it should unsettle us that the National Intelligence Service is seeking these unfettered power to listen in to our calls and also use of its invasive technology to pursue private conversations in the name of heightened security measures to keep terrorism and merchants of ethnic hatred, in check.

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