The Human Rights Commission published a report in 2013 setting out is concerns related to the Interception of Communications. The Commission had four main concerns at the time. Those included that:
1. there was no judicial oversight in the process of the issuance of telecommunication interception warrants;
2. based on the National Security Council’s (“the NSC”) constitutional mandate the Governor should be consulting with the NSC as a matter of course on any applications for an intercept warrant on matters relating to internal security;
3. members had not been appointed to serve on the Audit Committee; and
4. the Law appeared to contemplate the use of warrants in wider circumstances than as indicated by officials....
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