Right2Know and Privacy International join case against SA’s surveillance law
The case claims some parts of the regulation of interception of communication act are unconstitutional in terms of right to privacy
The Right2Know Campaign (R2K) and Privacy International (PI) have applied to be admitted as friends of the court in an ongoing legal challenge to SA’s surveillance law. In a statement‚ the two organisations said their intervention came on the back of mounting evidence that the South African state’s surveillance powers have been abused. They want to join the case launched by journalist Sam Sole and the amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism in the high court in Pretoria. Sole and amaBhungane seek an order declaring some sections of the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information Act (Rica) unconstitutional. R2K and PI said the so-called "checks and balances" in Rica have failed to protect citizens’ constitutional right to privacy. In their founding affidavit‚ the organisations said Sole and amaBhungane argued that the provisions of Rica were unconstitutional as they did not provide a default rule that the subjects of interc...
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