Australia

PROVISION OF REAL-TIME LAWFUL INTERCEPTION ASSISTANCE

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1997

Carriers and carriage service providers (carriers), such as Vodafone, have legislative obligations under the Telecommunications Act 1997 (TA) to provide assistance to law enforcement agencies and national security agencies with the interception of individual customer communications […]

2019-01-13T17:25:58+00:00October 6, 2018|Categories: legal frameworks|

Bangladesh

PROVISION OF REAL-TIME LAWFUL INTERCEPTION ASSISTANCE

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Act, 2001 (the “BTRA”)

Section 35 BTRA requires every person establishing or operating a telecommunication […]

2019-01-13T18:00:56+00:00October 6, 2018|Categories: legal frameworks|

Belgium

PROVISION OF REAL-TIME LAWFUL INTERCEPTION ASSISTANCE

CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

The Code of Criminal Procedure makes it possible to impose measures with a view to intercepting a person’s communications following a warrant by the examining magistrate (juge d’instruction/ onderzoeksrechter). This warrant also needs to be […]

2019-01-13T23:52:38+00:00October 6, 2018|Categories: legal frameworks|

Bolivia

PROVISION OF REAL-TIME LAWFUL INTERCEPTION ASSISTANCE

PROVISIONS GUARANTEEING THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY AND INVIOLABILITY OF COMMUNICATIONS

(a) Articles 21 and 25 of the Bolivian Constitution of 2009

Article 21 of the Bolivian Constitution guarantees the right to privacy.

The first paragraph of Article 25 guarantees the secrecy […]

2019-01-14T01:35:03+00:00October 6, 2018|Categories: legal frameworks|

Bulgaria

PROVISION OF REAL-TIME LAWFUL INTERCEPTION ASSISTANCE

LAW ON ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS 2007 (the “LEC”)

Article 304 states that undertakings which provide public electronic communications networks and/or services must ensure that they are set up in a way which allows for interception of electronic communications in […]

2019-01-13T23:54:50+00:00October 6, 2018|Categories: legal frameworks|

Colombia

PROVISION OF REAL-TIME LAWFUL INTERCEPTION ASSISTANCE

COLOMBIAN CONSTITUTION

Article 15 of the Colombian Constitution sets out the general principle that no correspondence or private communication in any form may be intercepted by government agencies unless a judicial order has been granted to permit it.  The particular circumstances […]

2019-01-13T23:55:15+00:00October 6, 2018|Categories: legal frameworks|

Czech Republic

PROVISION OF REAL-TIME LAWFUL INTERCEPTION ASSISTANCE

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS ACT

Section 97(1) of Act No. 127/2005 Coll. on Electronic Communications (the Electronic Communications Act) states that a network provider is obliged on request to set up and secure an […]

2019-01-14T01:35:31+00:00October 6, 2018|Categories: legal frameworks|

Denmark

PROVISION OF REAL-TIME LAWFUL INTERCEPTION ASSISTANCE

CONSOLIDATION ACT ON ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS AND SERVICES, 2014

(Bekendtgørelse af lov om elektroniske kommunikationsnet og –tjenester (Act no. 128 of 7 February 2014, (the “Tele Act”)) 

The Tele Act, in conjunction with the Retention […]

2019-01-14T01:24:59+00:00October 6, 2018|Categories: legal frameworks|

DR Congo

PROVISION OF REAL-TIME LAWFUL INTERCEPTION ASSISTANCE

FRAMEWORK LAW NO. 013-2002 ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Articles 54(a) and 55 of the Framework Law No. 013-2002 of 16 October 2002 on telecommunications in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) (Framework Law) provides for the interception of communications in two scenarios: firstly […]

2019-01-14T01:28:47+00:00October 6, 2018|Categories: legal frameworks|

Egypt

PROVISION OF REAL-TIME LAWFUL INTERCEPTION ASSISTANCE

CONSTITUTION OF EGYPT

Articles 57 and 58 of the Constitution of Egypt explicitly protect the privacy of communications, prohibiting their surveillance except with a reasoned court order for a specific time, in accordance with the law.

THE EGYPTIAN CRIMINAL CODE AND THE […]

2019-01-14T01:27:36+00:00October 6, 2018|Categories: legal frameworks|
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