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Escutas telefónicas

Listen to this podcast snippet* where Miguel Sousa Tavares shares a few thoughts on wiretapping and privacy rights.

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PT

Eu acho que a maior parte das pessoas e os jornalistas já não percebem o que é a dimensão de instalar uma escuta telefónica no telefone de alguém.

É uma coisa de uma violência absoluta porque as pessoas, quanto estão ao telefone, não têm noção daquilo que falam.

Só mesmo quando depois são confrontadas com escutas feitas ao seu telefone é que as pessoas realizam, que de facto contam a sua vida toda ao telefone, que é normal, contam aos seus familiares, contam aos seus amigos, contam tudo, a sua vida pessoal, profissional, íntima, sexual, tudo isso.

EN

I think that most people and journalists no longer understand what it means to install a wiretap on someone’s phone.

It’s something violent because when people are on the phone they have no idea of the things they say.

Only when they are confronted with the wiretapping they were subjected to do they realize, that in fact, they give away their whole lives on the phone, which is normal, they speak to their relatives, to their friends, and they tell everything, their personal life, professional, intimate, sexual, all of it.

* De Viva Voz (Expresso podcasts), episode Mar 8, 2024