IN JAMAICA: HELLO...! They Are Bugging Phones ... But Won't Tell!

Ellington

State agencies in Jamaica are listening to private phone calls but nobody will say who are the targets or how often calls are intercepted.

The deafening silence comes at a time when the Barack Obama administration in the United States (US) has admitted that it can read and store the phone records of millions of Americans.

Last Wednesday, the Obama administration made public a previously top-secret order that directed the telecommunications company Verizon to hand over an immense number of Americans' phone records.

In the United Kingdom, it also emerged last week that some of the world's leading telecoms firms, including BT and Vodafone, are secretly collaborating with Britain's spy agency and passing on details of their customers' phone calls, email messages and Facebook entries. Read More...