Sharp rise in bugging exposes Italians’ dirty secrets to the public
Source: Independent [UK]
08/25/05
Practically every public act in Britain today is recorded by CCTV cameras, but in Italy the ubiquitous form of surveillance is the bugged telephone. The Eurispes think-tank has revealed that 30 million Italians between the ages of 15 and 70 has been bugged in the past 10 years. Their report says: “Every Italian family” has been touched by the phenomenon, “at least once.” And the amount of bugging is increasing at blinding speed. In the past five years, the government has paid €1.25bn (£820m) to the phone companies, public and private, to tap customers’ phones for them...
Link: http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article307991.ece
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
08/25/05
Practically every public act in Britain today is recorded by CCTV cameras, but in Italy the ubiquitous form of surveillance is the bugged telephone. The Eurispes think-tank has revealed that 30 million Italians between the ages of 15 and 70 has been bugged in the past 10 years. Their report says: “Every Italian family” has been touched by the phenomenon, “at least once.” And the amount of bugging is increasing at blinding speed. In the past five years, the government has paid €1.25bn (£820m) to the phone companies, public and private, to tap customers’ phones for them...
Link: http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article307991.ece
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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