"Criminals in Italy are increasingly making phone calls over the internet in order to avoid getting caught through mobile phone intercepts, police say...."

But that's only half the story. Much of the issue goes in the other direction: The Italian press apparently gets much of its information from crime reporting from wiretaps, often of government officials! So the government is trying to control both directions: Preserve its ability to wiretap while stopping the press from doing so.

Whole article at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7890443.stm

                                                       -- Jerry



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