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South Africa's surveillance legislation has failed in several ways to protect journalists' communications, according to a report released by the Right2Know campaign.
The report, entitled "Spooked", was released Wednesday in Johannesburg. The latest report … examines a series of case studies of journalists who appear to have been spied on, to reveal what happened, how it happened and which parties seem to be responsible. " , said the organization
. the report, according to Right2Know, was to give reporters a better picture of the threats they might be facing so that they could better defend themselves, and rally the general public to ensure an end to surveillance abuses and bad policies that allow them. [19659002] The report states that the law on the regulation of the interception of communications and the provision of information relating to communication (Rica) has failed to protect the communications of journalists, as well as those of journalists.
Right2Know stated that it filed a list of supervisory review requests with the Department of Justice.
Many of the requests were "of special importance in remedying the weaknesses of Rica which put journalists [listed]] in this risk publication."
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