{"id":58316,"date":"2020-01-13T00:58:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T16:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58316"},"modified":"2020-01-13T01:09:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T17:09:23","slug":"electronic-surveillance-legal-but-subject-to-safeguards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58316","title":{"rendered":"Electronic surveillance legal but subject to safeguards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BATU\u00a0 SAPI, Jan 13 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Electronic surveillance in the country is legal, but subject to adequate protection to prevent abuse, said Minister in\u00a0the Prime Minister&#8217;s Department, Datuk Liew Vui Keong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said Malaysian&nbsp;laws on electronic surveillance are in line with international standards and law enforcement agencies do not embark on electronic surveillance at will.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have codified parameters for electronic surveillance in law and incorporated sufficient safeguards to prevent abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAgencies must first approach the Public Prosecutor and present their case. Should the Public Prosecutor be convinced that the surveillance is absolutely necessary to obtain information of a criminal offence, only he can require the surveillance be carried out,\u201d he said in a statement tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On human rights concerns involving the right to privacy, he said:&nbsp;\u201cAn absolutely important right without doubt. But no human right is absolute. Exceptions exist to strike a difficult but important balance between conflicting interests of the individual and the State&nbsp;at times. One such exception in this case being electronic surveillance necessary to safeguard national security and combat the increasingly complex nature of crimes today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BATU\u00a0 SAPI, Jan 13 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Electronic surveillance in the country is legal, but subject to adequate protection to prevent abuse, said Minister in\u00a0the Prime Minister&#8217;s Department, Datuk Liew Vui Keong. He said Malaysian&nbsp;laws on electronic surveillance are in line with international standards and law enforcement agencies do not embark on electronic surveillance at will.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":26169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58316"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}