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  2. Cmnd. 8191 (1981).

  3. Now republished in Duncan Campbell, “Phonetappers and the Security State”, New Society Report 2, London, (1981). For a participant’s view of the ABC trial Cf. C. Aubrey, Who is watching you?, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1981.

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  7. Ibid. [1979] 2 All E.R. 620. at 637.

  8. See, e.g., Lambert, “Executive Authority to Tap Telephones”, 43 Modern Law Review (1980), 59; V. Bevan, “Is there anyone there?”, Public Law (1980), 431; R. Wacks, The Protection of Privacy, London, Sweet and Maxwell, 1980, especially chapter 2.

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  18. Supra note 17. Cf. Klass v. Federal Republic of Germany, European Court of Human Rights, 1978

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  20. Especially On Liberty, London, Walter Scott Library, 1901.

  21. “The Right to Privacy”, 4 Harvard Law Review (1890), 193.

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Goodrich, P. Freedom of the phone. Liverpool Law Rev 3, 91–98 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03185301

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