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.