In 2019, it was reported that the

Republic of South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

had admitted that it been performing

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on Internet traffic by intercepting signals on submarine cables since 2008. The information emerged from a government affidavit in a legal case filed by the civil rights group

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that had challenged the

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and the

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