Eavesdropping, censorship and the voyeuristic state, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú

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The Constitution guarantees our rights to say what we want without censorship or restraint, as long as it is not injurious to anyone.

…the Buhari administration is not interested in these technologies to fight crime. Right now, the mobile telephony operators can help them catch terrorists and bandits using various cell phones to communicate and ask for ransom. Instead of facing the real threats, they are afraid of their shadows, they are seeking these tools to suppress dissent and punish anyone who disagrees with them and their policies.

As long as people have evolved language and personal conversations, those who eavesdrop have tried to listen in. Our people say, “the wall have ears”. They say so because before the phone, before the internet and the social media platforms it birthed, when important matters were discussed in homes, people listened in through the eaves. Literally they slither in, within the “eaves­drop”, to hear what was being said.

 

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