In 2019, it was reported that the

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had admitted that it been performing

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by intercepting signals on

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s 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 Regulation of Interception of Communications Act of 2002 and the National Security Act of 1994.

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