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Over the past few years, it has been blindly assumed that collecting all kinds of personal data would deliver added value. This turns out not to be the case, claims digital thinker Marijn van Vliet.

Lawyer for accused drug trafficker Charles Muscat ‘il-Pips’ attacks process behind phone tap in constitutional case on legality of Security Service intercepts

Criminal investigations will have to be conducted differently from now on, and the black-on-white admission that Malta Security Services can intercept communications without a legal basis raises serious questions also for journalists

George Degiorgio has filed an appeal to a recent judgment which awarded him €10,000 for a breach of his rights over phone taps which the court had ruled to be illegal 

As it stands, wiretapping is conducted by the Malta Security Services and regulated by the Security Services Act, which was last amended years ago. The law allo

Government use of general warrants to authorise computer and phone hacking is unlawful A court has ruled that the security and intelligence services can no longer rely on ‘general warrants’ to authorise the hacking of large numbers of computers and phones belonging to UK citizens Share this item with your network: By Published: 08 Jan 2021 23:03 The security and intelligence services cannot use “general warrants” to indiscriminately hack into large numbers of mobile phones and comp...

Magistrate denies Yorgen Fenechs request for Security Service phone taps to be heard in court Magistrate Rachel Montebello has turned down a request by Yorgen Fenechs defence team to have several phone taps presumably done by the Malta Security Services to be exhibited in court 28 December 2020, 10:31am by Nicole Meilak Daphne Caruana Galizia murder middleman Melvin Theuma: Yorgen Fenechs defence wanted presumed phone taps between Theuma and other key people to be exhibited in court Phone rec...