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Few Southern African countries have laws protecting people’s privacy, a report reveals

Few pro-democracy activists in Southern Africa need to be told that their governments don’t respect the right to privacy. Although the spying powers of governments in the region are dwarfed by those in the United States or China, there is growing concern that African governments may be listening in on conversations and private interactions of “troublemakers” — activists, journalists and critical voices.

Some countries don’t have a law regulating the government’s spying powers. But this doesn’t seem to have stopped the governments. In Malawi, for example, there was no clear law enabling the state to intercept users’ communications — despite years of legal action by pro-democracy activists, the state has rolled out a controversial network-monitoring programme that Malawians quickly nicknamed “the Spy Machine”. .

Clearly, there is a need to overhaul the laws across the region to protect people from digital spying.

 

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