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Zimbabwe: Big Brother plan

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Zimbabwe, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Technology

The Bearded Man commens on an article in the Washington Post about plans being mooted by the Zimbabwean government to monitor e-mail and other electronic communication [1]. He writes: “It would take a sizeable army to sift through emails, SMS and telephone calls – yes, I know that much of it can be done electronically, but that takes money – one thing that the Zimbabwen government is decidedly short of.”