Zimbabwe: Mugabe enacts law to spy on phones, 'net, mail

In the southern African nation of Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe has enacted a law granting state security agents full authority to surveil landline and mobile phones, postal mail and what little internet is available anyway, according to a government notice published on Friday.
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At least we can rest comfortably here in America, knowing such a thing would never happen in a civilized, Western democracy.