Sharp rise in bugging exposes Italians' dirty secrets to the public

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:17:12 +0200, Martin wrote:

Sharp rise in bugging exposes Italians' dirty secrets to the public
By Peter Popham in Rome
Published: 25 August 2005
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article307991.ece
Practically every public act in Britain today is recorded by CCTV
cameras, but in Italy the ubiquitous form of surveillance is the
bugged telephone.

The Eurispes think-tank has revealed that 30 million Italians between
the ages of 15 and 70 has been bugged in the past 10 years. Their
report says: "Every Italian family" has been touched by the
phenomenon, "at least once." And the amount of bugging is increasing
at blinding speed.

In the past five years, the government has paid €1.25bn (£820m) to the
phone companies, public and private, to tap customers' phones for
them. In the same period the number of taps increased by 125 per cent
over the preceding five years.

The simple solution is to speak quickly in English. That way you can
be sure no Italian will understand you.
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On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:03:18 +0200, Martin wrote:

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 22:33:56 +0100, DDT Filled Mormons
wrote:

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:17:12 +0200, Martin wrote:

Sharp rise in bugging exposes Italians' dirty secrets to the public
By Peter Popham in Rome
Published: 25 August 2005
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article307991.ece
Practically every public act in Britain today is recorded by CCTV
cameras, but in Italy the ubiquitous form of surveillance is the
bugged telephone.

The Eurispes think-tank has revealed that 30 million Italians between
the ages of 15 and 70 has been bugged in the past 10 years. Their
report says: "Every Italian family" has been touched by the
phenomenon, "at least once." And the amount of bugging is increasing
at blinding speed.

In the past five years, the government has paid €1.25bn (£820m) to the
phone companies, public and private, to tap customers' phones for
them. In the same period the number of taps increased by 125 per cent
over the preceding five years.

The simple solution is to speak quickly in English. That way you can
be sure no Italian will understand you.

So you've found that out too? :-)

Any time I find myself in trouble, I just put on a strong London
accent (by not pronouncing any 't's), and using invented colloquial
phrases.

"Nah, bu' I go''a ge' 'a Mahlan, n da bleedin larsh tren wuz la'er dan
da cobbler's bollux!"

Smile, and repeat with an increase in volume.
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