Sentence examples for interception activities from inspiring English sources

Ludwig told Ludlam that all communications interception activities in Australia undertaken by agencies were carried out in accordance with Australian law, and the government did not comment on the law enforcement or intelligence capabilities of other governments.

The AFP treats the disclosure of telecommunications interception data seriously, and it is an offence under the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act to disclose information relating to interception activities.

Guardian Australia can reveal that the AFP provided documents to the Senate, which were then made publicly available online on parliamentary sites and other sources for several years, and which accidentally disclosed information about the subjects and focus of criminal investigations and telecommunications interception activities.

His wife only found out about her husband's secret past in 1980 - more than three decades after he had stopped his interception activities.

But in a statement on Tuesday, the Brazilian government said that "given the proximity of the scheduled state visit to Washington - and in the absence of a timely investigation of the incident, with corresponding explanations and the commitment to cease the interception activities" it could not go ahead as planned.

In a departure from previous practice, the IPT posted advance notice of this week's hearing on its website, explaining that the case is "against the intelligence agencies in respect of alleged interception activity involving UK and US access to communications".

By comparison, the small ICCO office based in Whitehall's Queen Anne's Gate headed by the retired appeal court judge Sir Anthony May, currently has less than 10 full-time staff to carry out its statutory duty of reviewing the interception activity of the UK spy agencies, the Metropolitan Police, HM Revenue and Customs, the Foreign Office, the Home Office and Ministry of Defence.

The nearest the government has come to a defence of its surveillance programs to date came in June when Charles Farr, the country's most senior intelligence official, said that the mass interception of activity on Facebook, Twitter and Google was legal because these services counted as "external communications".

It is worth pointing out, however, that this law does not deal with separate interception and monitoring activities carried out by the UK's intelligence agency, GCHQ.

Among refugees from conflicts in the Middle East, for example, studies have confirmed that interception and detention activities negatively affect the mental well-being of those targeted by such policies.

"Justifying war, murder, illegal interception, and pirate-like activities under an illegal cover of defence will not go unnoticed by us or the people of the world.