Socialist Big Brother

The socialist Portuguese government led by PM Jose Socrates has launched a new law by which a chip would be applied to all automobiles in the country, allegedly in order to controlling the insurance legality and TÜV inspection updating. The law has been considered unconstitutional by the political opposition as it clearly violates privacy data policy warranted by the Portuguese constitution.

No law control for Portuguese police phone bugs

According to Lisbon daily newspaper “Diário de Notícias”, the Portuguese criminal police (“Polícia Judiciária”) has established a phone bug system that operates out of the country´s laws, and hundred of thousands of citizens’ cell phones have being bugged without a judicial control.

As referred by the aforementioned newspaper, everybody is a possible target and part of the information illegally collected by means of outlawed phone bugs are used by private detectives who work under covered in the police force.