{"id":548679,"date":"2006-05-05T07:01:12","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T07:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548679-cabinet-gives-nod-to-mobile-interception.html"},"modified":"2006-05-05T07:01:12","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T07:01:12","slug":"cabinet-gives-nod-to-mobile-interception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548679-cabinet-gives-nod-to-mobile-interception.html","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet gives nod to mobile interception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">This was announced by government spokesman Joel Netshitenzhe at a post-cabinet briefing at the Union Buildings in Pretoria &#8211; but beamed to Parliament in Cape Town. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>It is understood that this relates to obligating cellular phone companies to monitor the purchasers of SIM cards as well as putting in place monitoring &quot;structures&quot;. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>The Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information Amendment Bill &quot;defines obligations of sellers of cellular phones and SIM cards&quot;, according to a statement on the cabinet meeting. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>The original Act became law in 2003 made personal data collected from customers available to law enforcement upon request.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=42726\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><i \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s cabinet approved for submission to parliament legislation regulating &#8220;lawful&#8221; interception of certain communication on cellular telephones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}