Bill Would Allow Bugging of Homes
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From Times Wire Reports
The government and main opposition party agreed on a major change in civil liberties law that would grant police far greater powers to plant electronic surveillance devices in private homes in order to collect evidence against suspected criminals. The landmark reform would permit eavesdropping practices that have been banned since 1945 because of widespread abuses by the secret police during the Nazi era. The legislation exempts priests, defense attorneys and lawmakers.
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