{"id":10016,"date":"2012-05-05T14:25:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T14:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=10016"},"modified":"2012-05-05T14:25:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T14:25:07","slug":"court-blocks-malawi-spy-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/05\/court-blocks-malawi-spy-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Court blocks Malawi \u2018spy machine\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A long-standing furore over a planned \u2018spy machine\u2019 has been laid to rest in a Malawi court.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called \u2018spy machine\u2019 was a tracking system planned by the government\u2019s Malawi Communications Regulatory Agency (MACRA) to track telephone calls and the revenue owed to government.<\/p>\n<p>However, detractors expressed fears that it could also be used to listen in on calls and track who called whom.<div id=\"attachment_10022\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/spy-machine1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10022\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10022\" title=\"spy machine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/spy-machine1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Telecom firms were under threat with the spy machine<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Blantyre resident Alick Kimu took the matter to court, filing a suit against all four telephone operators in Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>The Lilongwe Commercial Court ruled that the right to privacy is enshrined in the Constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long-standing furore over a planned \u2018spy machine\u2019 has been laid to rest in a Malawi court. The so-called \u2018spy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[400],"tags":[961,258,1385,2302],"class_list":["post-10016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-macra","tag-malawi","tag-spy-machine","tag-telecommunication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}