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The IDF will require Cellcom Israel Ltd. (NYSE:CEL; TASE:CEL) to connect to two centers to be selected, which will permit the monitoring and listening in on conversations by subscribers as part of the mobile services tender that the mobile carrier won yesterday. Cellcom will produce reports and provide details of calls at the IDF's request.
The condition was included in the tender, and all three participating carriers knew of it in advance.
This is not the first time, and probably will not be the last time, that such snooping will be carried out. The defense establishment has access to all of Israel's mobile networks; this fact appears in the confidential chapter in the mobile carriers' licenses and is not new.
Nonetheless, the fact that the IDF can listen in on and monitor anyone who receives a mobile phone through it creates legal problems concerning invasion of privacy and illegal wiretapping. The IDF is apparently unconcerned and believes that it has the right to listen in on a soldier or officer who receives a mobile phone from it without the need for a warrant.
The IDF spokesman said, "The IDF is an army that advances with technology. Paralleling the technological progress and development, a security risk analysis was conducted and special administrative and technical solutions were provided to handle the new security threats that constantly emerge from the use of devices of this kind."
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