Aoun: Granting Security Agencies Complete Telecom Data is a Crime against Constitution
Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun stated on Tuesday that telecom data is a legal need in solving crimes, criticizing however how the complete data was handed over to the security agencies.
He said after the Change and Reform bloc’s weekly meeting: “Handing over the complete data to the security agencies is a crime against the constitution.”
He declared that legal action will be taken against the judges who approved this decision.
Media reports had said that the security agencies had received the complete telecom data of Lebanon’s two mobile phone service providers.
The March 14 camp had been pressuring the government to do so for the sake of the investigations in the assassination attempts against MP Butros Harb and Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea.
Aoun stated that the delivery of the complete telecom data will infringe on the privacy of the people.
“We cannot accept that our phones will be tapped as any information may later be used to blackmail us,” he warned.
“Phone tapping is illegal all over the world and no one has the right to violate the privacy of the people,” declared the FPM leader.
Asked if one party has tapped the phones of all Lebanese, the MP responded: “Who is this party? Such a feat is technically impossible.”
“Only the Telecommunications Ministry has the capabilities to do so,” he stressed.
Commenting on the EDL contract workers’ sit-in, he remarked: “The experts discuss this case.”
“I consider their dispute to be resolved,” Aoun added.
The workers had been carrying a sit-on for over three months, demanding that their salaries be paid and that they be granted full-time employment.
The escalated their action on Monday by closing all the entrances of the company’s headquarters in Mar Mikhael with metal chains while the full-time employees staged a counter-protest outside.
Earlier in July the parliament endorsed a draft law approving the permanent employment of the workers, but the matter created a rift between Speaker Nabih Berri and Aoun as 80 percent of them are Shiites.
Source: Naharnet
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