The main law controlling phone tapping in Britain is the Interception of Communications Act, which the then Conservative government was forced to introduce in 1985, after a case at the European Court of Human Rights.

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Communities could then develop bespoke wireless networks, tapping into these main connections.

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New collected water samples from wells, tapping the aquifer on Argentinan and Uruguayan territory, were analysed on their main chemical parameters and compared with older data.

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But already ministers were resigning over other, much nastier issues: charges of widespread tapping of telephones, including the ministers' own, and then the sudden removal of citizenship from the main shareholder, a naturalised Peruvian, of the television station that had made the charges.

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